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`` Rise , rise , '' said Richard , compelling him to stand up ; `` it beseems not that knees which are so frequently bended to the Deity should press the ground in honour of man . What danger awaits us , reverend father ? and when stood the power of England so low that the noisy bluster of this new-made Duke 's displeasure should alarm her or her monarch ? '' `` I have looked forth from my mountain turret upon the starry host of heaven , as each in his midnight circuit uttered wisdom to another , and knowledge to the few who can understand their voice . There sits an enemy in thy House of Life , Lord King , malign at once to thy fame and thy prosperity -- an emanation of Saturn , menacing thee with instant and bloody peril , and which , but thou yield thy proud will to the rule of thy duty , will presently crush thee even in thy pride . '' `` Away , away -- this is heathen science , '' said the King . `` Christians practise it not -- wise men believe it not .