Be journeying on in this inclement air. 
Wrap thy old cloak about thy back;
Nor leave the broad and plain and beaten road,
Although no flowers smile on the trodden dust, 45
For the violet paths of pleasure.  This Charles the First
Rose like the equinoctial sun,... 
By vapours, through whose threatening ominous veil
Darting his altered influence he has gained
This height of noon—­from which he must decline 50
Amid the darkness of conflicting storms,
To dank extinction and to latest night... 
There goes
The apostate Strafford; he whose titles
whispered aphorisms 55
From Machiavel and Bacon:  and, if Judas
Had been as brazen and as bold as he—­

NOTES: 
33-37 Canst...enginery 1870;
    Canst thou not think
    Of change in that low scene, in which thou art
    Not a spectator but an actor?... 1824.
43-57 Wrap...bold as he 1870; omitted 1824.

FIRST CITIZEN: 
That
Is the Archbishop.

SECOND CITIZEN: 
Rather say the Pope: 
London will be soon his Rome:  he walks
As if he trod upon the heads of men:  60
He looks elate, drunken with blood and gold;—­
Beside him moves the Babylonian woman
Invisibly, and with her as with his shadow,
Mitred adulterer! he is joined in sin,
Which turns Heaven’s milk of mercy to revenge. 65

THIRD CITIZEN [LIFTING UP HIS EYES]: 
Good Lord! rain it down upon him!... 
Amid her ladies walks the papist queen,
As if her nice feet scorned our English earth. 
The Canaanitish Jezebel!  I would be
A dog if I might tear her with my teeth! 70
There’s old Sir Henry Vane, the Earl of Pembroke,
Lord Essex, and Lord Keeper Coventry,
And others who make base their English breed
By vile participation of their honours
With papists, atheists, tyrants, and apostates. 75
When lawyers masque ’tis time for honest men
To strip the vizor from their purposes. 
A seasonable time for masquers this! 
When Englishmen and Protestants should sit
dust on their dishonoured heads 80
To avert the wrath of Him whose scourge is felt
For the great sins which have drawn down from Heaven
and foreign overthrow. 
The remnant of the martyred saints in Rochefort
Have been abandoned by their faithless allies 85
To that idolatrous and adulterous torturer
Lewis of France,—­the Palatinate is lost—­
[ENTER LEIGHTON (WHO HAS BEEN BRANDED IN THE FACE) AND BASTWICK.]
Canst thou be—­art thou?

NOTE: 
73 make 1824; made 1839.

LEIGHTON: 
I WAS Leighton:  what
I AM thou seest.  And yet turn thine eyes,
And with thy memory look on thy friend’s mind, 90
Which is unchanged, and where is written deep
The sentence of my judge.