an Heroick Poem.
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53.
With ease you take what we provide with care;
And we (who your Legation must maintain)
Find all your Tribe in the Commission are;
And none but Heav'n could send so large a Train.
With ease you take what we provide with care;
And we (who your Legation must maintain)
Find all your Tribe in the Commission are;
And none but Heav'n could send so large a Train.
54.
But being all Ambassadours from thence,
The growing charge will soon exceed our rent,
Unless you please to treat at his expence
Who sent you; not at ours, where you are sent.
But being all Ambassadours from thence,
The growing charge will soon exceed our rent,
Unless you please to treat at his expence
Who sent you; not at ours, where you are sent.
55.
The ancient Laws liv'd in the Peoples voice;
Rites you from Custom, not from Canon draw;
They are but fashions of a graver choice,
Which yield to Laws, and now our voice is Law.
The ancient Laws liv'd in the Peoples voice;
Rites you from Custom, not from Canon draw;
They are but fashions of a graver choice,
Which yield to Laws, and now our voice is Law.
56.
This Tybalt heard with sorrow and disdain,
(Who here with Hurgonil a Mourner came)
And strait the peacefull Fathers strives to gain,
And thus the Peoples Oratour reclaim.
This Tybalt heard with sorrow and disdain,
(Who here with Hurgonil a Mourner came)
And strait the peacefull Fathers strives to gain,
And thus the Peoples Oratour reclaim.
57.
Most usefull Fathers! some trace secret things
Even to his Closet, who is hid in Heav'n;
Vainly as Nilus to his hidden springs,
And not enjoy, but censure what is giv'n.
Most usefull Fathers! some trace secret things
Even to his Closet, who is hid in Heav'n;
Vainly as Nilus to his hidden springs,
And not enjoy, but censure what is giv'n.
58.
You with such temper their intemp'rance bear,
To shew your solid science does rely
So on it self, as you no trial fear;
For Arts are weak that are of Scepticks shie.
You with such temper their intemp'rance bear,
To shew your solid science does rely
So on it self, as you no trial fear;
For Arts are weak that are of Scepticks shie.
59.
Though in your Office humane safety lies,
Which opes that Hell the vicious vulgar fear,
Yet never can the People Priesthood prise;
As if from Heav'n your daily errands were.
Though in your Office humane safety lies,
Which opes that Hell the vicious vulgar fear,
Yet never can the People Priesthood prise;
As if from Heav'n your daily errands were.
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