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36. Of the King.
Laws, without King, in a Parallel run,With duskish light, discarded by the Sun.
King without Laws, is Phœbus in the Night;
What though there be a Sun? we see no Light.
The People chose their King; they both made Laws.
Hence Laws; hence Lords; the Royal Scepter awes.
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