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And shew the Stranger passing on his Way,
Where Candish, Booth, and Osborn sate,
When, bursting from their Country's Chain,
Ev'n in the midst of deadly Harms,
Of papal Snares and lawless Arms,
They plann'd for Freedom this her awful Reign.

VI. I.

This Reign, these Laws, this public Care,

Which Nassau crave us All to share,
Had ne'er adorn'd the English Name,
Could Fear have silenc'd Freedom's Claim.
But Fear in vain attempts to bind
Those lofty Efforts of the Mind,
Which social Good inspires;