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Eleg. 24.
[Nor would we now, because we do beleeve]
Nor would we now, because we do beleeve,His God (to whom indeed he did belong)
To crown him where he hath no cause to grieve,
Took him from death that sought to do him wrong.
But were this deare-beloved Prince of ours
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Though kept by Romes & Mahomets chiefe powers;
They should not long detain him there in thrall:
We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;
Dispeople the whole Earth before the doome:
Stamp halfe to powder, and fire all the rest;
No craft nor force should him divide us from:
We would break down what e'er shold him confine
Though 'twere the Alps, or hills of Apenine.
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