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But Piety commands me to refrain;
Those Pray'rs are needless in this Monarch's Reign.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Behold! how he protects your Friends opprest,
Receives the Banish'd, succours the Distress'd:
Behold, for you may read an honest open Breast.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$He stands in Day-light, and disdains to hide
An Act to which, by Honour he is ty'd
A generous, laudable, and Kingly Pride.
Your Test he would repeal, his Peers restore,
This when he says he means, he means no more.

Well, said the Panther, I believe him just,
And yet———

And yet, 'tis but because you must,
You would be trusted, but you would not trust.
The Hind thus briefly; and disdain'd t' inlarge
On Pow'r of Kings, and their Superiour charge,

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