Excerpt from The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Dedicated to the Holy Alliance
"Perish those poets, and be hush"d the song,
Which with this nonsense charm"d the world so long,
That he who does no right, can do no wrong."
De Foe.
To condemn nonsense, especially in high places, is proper: there are ancient precedents for it.
A thousand years before Christ, Nathan, a priest in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, knew that David the Lord"s anointed, had not only worked folly in Israel, by committing adultery with a beautiful woman, but had committed crime, by causing her husband to be put to death. The honest priest charged both the folly and the crime upon the king! He went up to his majesty with this Address: "Thou art the man!" He prosecuted him at the bar of his own conscience, convicted him, and passed sentence upon him - "The sword shall not depart from thine house!"
Three thousand years after this, a priest, sent into an English House of Lords by the nomination of the king, affirms there, that "he had "high authority" for stating, that the king could not commit folly, much less crime!"
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