Chorus monologue (Act 2) — Vondel's Lucifer

And doth the charge that Gabriel brought from God You thus disturb? This but a frenzy seems. Who dares to reprehend the high command? Who so presumptuous himself against The Godhead to oppose? To give to God His honor and His Right, to rest upon His law, this is our bounden charge. Who dares To enter here with God's Omnipotence In such dispute? His word and nod and will 110 Serve as our law and pace and precept firm. Who contradiction breathes doth break the seal Of the Most High. Obedience doth please The Ruler of this Realm far more than smell Of incense or divinest harmonies. Ye are (oh! be ye not so vain, we pray, Of boasted lineage) created more For such subjection than for rulership. O brothers, cease this wailing and lament. And bow beneath the yoke of the Power Supreme. 120