A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.