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What horrid Dreams have terrified me 〈◊〉〈◊〉 my br••ken slumbers? How has sweet sleep fled ••••om my Eyes, and tedious tossings made a restless
night? Sure it was because the Prophet is in danger, from which a Monarck could not rescue him. But now the Morning Dawns, and I am at the fatal Den, into which malitious Men have cast him as a Prey to hungry Lyons: I'll see if that great God he serves, has hitherto preserved him from their rage. O Da∣niel, Daniel! Servant of the highest, speak, it is a King your Friend that longs to hear your voice, which would be Musick to his Ears. Say, say, has God, the God wh••m you have served been able to deliver you.
Great Monarck live for ever, thy Servant is in safety; the God of Jacob, at whose tremendious name I bend me to the dust, has s••nt his Angel, and has clos'd the rending Iaws of the stern Lyons, causeing them to faun on me without a power to hurt, since inte∣grity in me was found before him, nor in ought have I offended great Darius.
O welcome sound! And is my darling safe? Blessed, blessed, for ever be thy God, whose power has kept the cruelest of Beasts, from bathing th••ir stern Jaws in Blood of innocence. With speed, with speed; draw, draw him thence, draw out the man my Soul so much delights in. O let me embrace my Daniel, my dear Prophet! Whom the malice of ill-minded so far exposed to danger.
Thus low I kn••el to meet the favo•••• great Darius dos vouchsafe his Servant.
O Rise! My Love, my Life, my Soul; and say, how look'd your stern assoc••a••es, when you first took lodging in the Den.
At first great King they roard aloud in ex∣pectation of decending prey, as being allmost famisht, but having at a distance glar'd on me with firey Eyes they came and couch'd beneath my feet, fa••••ing and swindg∣ing round their Tails, so tame that all appearance of their natural fierceness vanish'd, suffering me with much delight to stroak them and make pastime with curl∣ing
Maines, nor was I ignorant whose power restraind their rage, but as I mused the Den at the top divided and a brightness shone throughout - the gloomy place, when as a man decended with refreshment for your Ser∣vant, brought by an Angel from a distant land: And the same way he came, return'd, on which repast have∣ing well fed, I layd me down to slumber till your Royal voice awaked me.
Amazing, yea stupendiously amazing is what you relate, nor hence will Darius trust in any God but him, that has been able to deliver his much injured Servant, to him I will pay my vows, and Death shall be his Doom if subject to my Scepter, that dares once bend his knee to any other Deity: Nor shall the malitious and revengefull men that durst traduce my Daniel scape dire vengeance, and not only they, but all that appertains to them of their curst race, not one shall live, the Lyons shall have plenty of their Blood. Than come my Faith∣full Friend, come to the Pallace of thy Monarck, whilst I give command for the quick Execution of what' I decree.
Great Sir I'm all obedient, and with joyfull steps thus wait upon my King, who has vouchsaf'd to load his Servant, with so many favours and next him whom I adore will make it my delight to do his just com∣mands.