The summons heard, th' obedient train attend,

Collect, and hastening toward the palace bend.

First of their order, as in rank and fame

Superior, Upsal's haughty prelate came;

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Erect in priestly pride, he stalk'd along,

And tower'd supreme o'er all the princely throng.

A soul congenial, and a mind replete

With ready artifice and bold deceit,

To suit a tyrant's ends, however base,

In Christiern's friendship had secured his place.

His were the senator's and courtier's parts,

And all the statesman's magazine of arts;

His, each expedient, each all-powerful wile,

To thwart a foe, or win a monarch's smile:

The nicely-plann'd and well-pursued intrigue;

The smooth evasion of the hollow league;

The specious argument, that subtly strays

Thro' winding sophistry's protracted maze:

The complicated, deep, immense design,

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