'Imperial Constabulary' or 'Black Magic'?

Or is ICBM just short for
"I see shit!" – no less nor more?
For as without an aesthetick
Is 'just', as mediocritick
Alone, another blanken'd script:

For money b’ing the common scale
Of things by measure, weight, and tale,
In all th’ affairs of Church and State,
’Tis both the balance and the weight;

– Hudibras, ca 1660

"As the Devil is the Spiritual Prince of Darkness, so is the Constable the Secular, who governs the night with as great authority as his colleague, but far more imperiously."

– Hudibras' translator, ca 1805

An oath's but promise to the futures,
(not curse nor spell – they're only wagers).
But Troth relinquish't all around,
as to relig'n on any ground,
for magick tricks win all hands down.

[imperious: arrogant, haughty and domineering – Mid-16th century. < H. Potter's Grammatoire: Imperiosus! < L.: imperium (see empire)]

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