Nill Sceptre

... you explain the passionate desire commonly displayed to wield the tyrant's sceptre ... consumed with a desire to keep freemen slaves and yet to be driven, will he nill ...

The Confessions. St. Augustine. Translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey. Table of Contents BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI BOOK VII BOOK VIII BOOK IX

Thus he the best sort us'd; the worst, whose spirits brake out in noise,[33] He cudgell'd with his sceptre, chid, and said, "Stay, wretch, be still, And hear thy ...