Never before, in his opinion, had the true claim of their Majesties to obedience been so clearly stated.

Every Jacobite who read this admirable tract must inevitably be converted.

The nonjurors would flock to take the oaths.

The nation, so long divided, would at length be united.

From these pleasing dreams Bohun was awakened by learning, a few hours after the appearance of the discourse which had charmed him, that the titlepage had set all London in a flame, and that the odious words, King William and Queen Mary Conquerors, had moved the indignation of multitudes who had never read further.