Thus may she do again.

And though not yet, have you, sovereign-kings! in any large degree done likewise, it is because you overflow your redundancies within your own mighty borders; having a wild western waste, which many shepherds with their flocks could not overrun in a day.

Yet overrun at last it will be; and then, the recoil must come.
"And, may it please you, that thus far your chronicles had narrated a very different story, had your population been pressed and packed, like that of your old sire-land Dominora.

Then, your great experiment might have proved an explosion; like the chemist's who, stirring his mixture, was blown by it into the air.
"For though crossed, and recrossed by many brave quarterings, and boasting the great Bull in your pedigree; yet, sovereign-kings! you are not meditative philosophers like the people of a small republic of old; nor enduring stoics, like their neighbors.

Pent up, like them, may it please you, your thirteen original tribes had proved more turbulent, than so many mutinous legions.