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But serv’d themselves, exempt from Vice,
The Gods with Pray’r and Sacrifice;
All those, that were unfit, or knew,
Their Service might be spared, withdrew:
Nor was their Business for so many,
(If th’ Honest stand in need of any.)
Few only with the High-Priest staid,
To whom the rest Obedience paid:
Himself, employ’d in holy Cares,
Resign’d to others State-Affairs:
He chased no Starv’ling from his Door,
Nor pinch’d the Wages of the Poor;
But at his House the Hungry’s fed,
The Hireling finds unmeasur’d Bread,
The needy Trav’ler Board and Bed.
The Gods with Pray’r and Sacrifice;
All those, that were unfit, or knew,
Their Service might be spared, withdrew:
Nor was their Business for so many,
(If th’ Honest stand in need of any.)
Few only with the High-Priest staid,
To whom the rest Obedience paid:
Himself, employ’d in holy Cares,
Resign’d to others State-Affairs:
He chased no Starv’ling from his Door,
Nor pinch’d the Wages of the Poor;
But at his House the Hungry’s fed,
The Hireling finds unmeasur’d Bread,
The needy Trav’ler Board and Bed.
Among the King’s great Ministers,
And all th’ inferiour Officers
And all th’ inferiour Officers
The
