Valmiki

“ Thus to the gathered people spake:
'The eldest son is ever king:
So rules the house from which we spring:
Nor should ye, Lords, like men unwise,
With words like these to wrong advise.
Ráma is eldest born, and he
The ruler of the land shall be. ”

“ Who wishest still thine elder's hand
To rule with kingly sway the land.'
Their glorious speech, their favouring cries
Made his proud bosom swell:
And from the prince's noble eyes
The tears of rapture fell. [1]
↑ I follow in this stanza the Bombay edition in preference to Schlegel's which gives the tears of joy to the courtiers. ”