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    AM are a mighty people * strong in goldw ¦ ¦ The sceptre of all kingdoms ! Were ye gathir d * O , were ye gather ed , ye were terrible Within the world—and holy , and set up

    'Mid the prime potentates : the curse of Heaven That hangs so dark and heavily upon ye Cannot endure for ever ; and ye shall he , Ye shall be a proud nation once again—And have your Prophets , Princes , and your Rulers , As in the time of old ; It is decreed !

    But I , the rightful heir of your great kings ( Whose just inheritance were camps and thrones ) Must live a stranger to your renovation ; Find all my glory on the abject mart , And die uncrown ed among ye ! Yet I reign ; Reign in your hearts—in thousands of your hearts J And so I have a glory ; and being great Amid the wreck of greatness , live content /'—p . 7 .

    One of the most highly dramatic scenes in the tragedy is the pleading of Xavier with the King against the tyrauijpus edict he has just issued , tending to the ruin of the Jews , Thgfrge noble spirit of Xavier is brought into fine contrast with the King's royal

    insincerity" How can I serve thee , Xavier ?" Perhaps the audience thought the reproof too bold : " Is it possible ? That you , my liege—a king , for chivalry By fame high

    trumpeted—Your fingers itching for that wrong ' s foul profit—» Unto that body ' s representative , Coming to plead on justice' strict behalf For mercy that ' s mere rigmWsay with cold eye And ignorant tongue—Sow can I serve thee , sir ? By Judah ' s God ! my liege , it makes me mad , And under foot beats reverence !"—p . 13 .

    But we believe it was when the daughter succeeded where the father had failed , and the King , leaving the Christian Princces to walk in the marriage procession as she best might , l ^ d out the beautiful Jewess , that the Christian House could bear it no longer ; thereby evincing a strange standard of dramatic criticism ; judging a point of nature by the circumstance of a creed .

    In the failure of Xavier ' s attempt to raise the Jews to splendour and dominion ; a failure caused by accldGht and thfe Machinations of enemies iihM&a&urably fti& iftffitfdjM , aihd ifrrilving his own destruction , attd tfte Niitt " &tMs n&tioa , tfi ^ M Id finely shown forth the tMdtocy of thfe ifoblM passions' to tragic results

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    f 154 Dramatic EecoUection ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/28/