093:1,0000['  ]| <The Hind and the Panther:>
093:1,0000['  ]| <The First Part>
093:1,0001['  ]| A Milk white Hind, immortal and unchanged,
093:1,0002['  ]| Fed on$4$ the lawns, and in$4$ the forest ranged;
093:1,0003['  ]| Without unspotted, innocent within,
093:1,0004['  ]| She feared no$2$ danger, for$3$ she knew no$2$ sin.
093:1,0005['  ]| Yet had she oft been chased with horns and hounds,
093:1,0006['  ]| And Scythian shafts; and many winged wounds
093:1,0007['  ]| Aimed at Her heart; was often forced to$9$ fly,
093:1,0008['  ]| And doomed to$4$ death, though fated not to$9$ die.
093:1,0009['  ]| Not so$5#2$ her young, for$3$ their unequal line
093:1,0010['  ]| Was Hero's make, half human, half divine.
093:1,0011['  ]| Their earthly mould obnoxious was to$4$ fate,
093:1,0012['  ]| The immortal part assumed immortal state.
093:1,0013['  ]| Of these a slaughtered army lay in$4$ blood,
093:1,0014['  ]| Extended over the Caledonian wood, 
093:1,0015['  ]| Their native walk; whose vocal blood arose,
093:1,0016['  ]| And cried for$4$ pardon on$4$ their perjured foes;
093:1,0017['  ]| Their fate was fruitful, and the sanguine seed
093:1,0018['  ]| Indued with souls, increased the sacred breed.
093:1,0019['  ]| So$3$ Captive Israel multiplied in$4$ chains
093:1,0020['  ]| A numerous Exile, and enjoyed her pains.
093:1,0021['  ]| With grief and gladness mixed, their mother viewed
093:1,0022['  ]| Her martyred offspring, and their race renewed;
093:1,0023['  ]| Their corpse to$9$ perish, but their kind to$9$ last,
093:1,0024['  ]| So$5#1$ much the deathless plant the dying fruit surpassed.
093:1,0025['  ]| Panting and pensive now she ranged alone,
093:1,0026['  ]| And wandered in$4$ the kingdoms, once Her own.
093:1,0027['  ]| The common Hunt, though from their rage restrained
093:1,0028['  ]| By$4$ sovereign power, her company disdained:
093:1,0029['  ]| Grinned as They passed, and with a glaring eye
093:1,0030['  ]| Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity.
093:1,0031['  ]| It is true, she bounded by$5$, and tripped so$5#1$ light
093:1,0032['  ]| They had not time to$9$ take a steady sight.
093:1,0033['  ]| For$3$ truth had such a face and such a mien
093:1,0034['  ]| As to$9$ be loved needs only to$9$ be seen.
093:1,0035['  ]| The bloody Bear and Independent beast,
093:1,0036['  ]| Unlicked to$9$ form, in$4$ groans her hate expressed.
093:1,0037['  ]| Among the timorous kind of Quaking Hare
093:1,0038['  ]| Professed neutrality, but would not swear.
093:1,0039['  ]| Next her the Buffoon Ape, as Atheists use,
093:1,0040['  ]| Mimicked all Sects, and had his own to$9$ choose:
093:1,0041['  ]| Still when the Lion looked, his knees he bent,
093:1,0042['  ]| And paid at Church a Courtier's Compliment.
093:1,0043['  ]| The bristled Baptist Boar, impure as He,
093:1,0044['  ]| (But whitened with the foam of sanctity)
093:1,0045['  ]| With fat pollutions filled the sacred place,
093:1,0046['  ]| And mountains levelled in$4$ his furious race,
093:1,0047['  ]| So$3$ first rebellion founded was in$4$ grace.
093:1,0048['  ]| But since the mighty ravage which$6#1$ he made
093:1,0049['  ]| In$4$ German Forests, had his guilt betrayed
093:1,0050['  ]| With broken tusks, and with a borrowed name
093:1,0051['  ]| He shunned the vengeance, and concealed the shame;
093:1,0052['  ]| So$3$ lurked in$4$ Sects unseen. With greater guile
093:1,0053['  ]| False Reynard fed on$4$ consecrated spoil:
093:1,0054['  ]| The graceless beast by$4$ Athanasius first
093:1,0055['  ]| Was chased from Nice; then by$4$ Socinus nursed
093:1,0056['  ]| His impious race their blasphemy renewed,
093:1,0057['  ]| And nature's King through nature's optics viewed.
093:1,0058['  ]| Reversed they viewed him lessened to$4$ their eye,
093:1,0059['  ]| Nor in$4$ an Infant could a God descry:
093:1,0060['  ]| New swarming Sects to$4$ this obliquely tend,
093:1,0061['  ]| Hence they began, and here they all will$1$ end.
093:1,0062['  ]| What weight of ancient witness can prevail
093:1,0063['  ]| If private reason hold the public scale?
093:1,0064['  ]| But, gracious God, how well dost thou provide
093:1,0065['  ]| For$4$ erring judgments an unerring Guide!
093:1,0066['  ]| Thy throne is darkness in$4$ the abyss of light,
093:1,0067['  ]| A blaze of glory that$6#1$ forbids the sight;
093:1,0068['  ]| O teach me to$9$ believe Thee thus concealed,
093:1,0069['  ]| And search no$2$ farther than thyself revealed;
093:1,0070['  ]| But her alone for$4$ my Director take
093:1,0071['  ]| Whom thou hast promised never to$9$ forsake!
093:1,0072['  ]| My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires,
093:1,0073['  ]| My manhood, long misled by$4$ wandering fires,
093:1,0074['  ]| Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone,
093:1,0075['  ]| My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.
093:1,0076['  ]| Such was I, such by$4$ nature still I am,
093:1,0077['  ]| Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame.
093:1,0078['  ]| Good life be now my task: my doubts are done,
093:1,0079['  ]| (What more could fright my faith, than Three in$4$ One?)
093:1,0080['  ]| Can I believe eternal God could lie
093:1,0081['  ]| Disguised in$4$ mortal mould and infancy?
093:1,0082['  ]| That$3$ the great maker of the world could die?
093:1,0083['  ]| And after that$6#2$, trust my imperfect sense
093:1,0084['  ]| Which$6#1$ calls in$4$ question his omnipotence?
093:1,0085['  ]| Can I my reason to$4$ my faith compel,
093:1,0086['  ]| And shall my sight, and touch, and taste rebel?
093:1,0087['  ]| Superior faculties are set aside,
093:1,0088['  ]| Shall their subservient organs be my guide?
093:1,0089['  ]| Then let the moon usurp the rule of day,
093:1,0090['  ]| And winking tapers show the sun his way;
093:1,0091['  ]| For$3$ what my senses can themselves perceive
093:1,0092['  ]| I need no$2$ revelation to$9$ believe.
093:1,0093['  ]| Can they who$6#1$ say the Host should be descried
093:1,0094['  ]| By$4$ sense, define a body glorified?
093:1,0095['  ]| Impassible, and penetrating parts?
093:1,0096['  ]| Let them declare by$4$ what mysterious arts
093:1,0097['  ]| He shot that$6#2$ body through the opposing might
093:1,0098['  ]| Of bolts and bars impervious to$4$ the light,
093:1,0099['  ]| And stood before his train confessed in$4$ open sight,
093:1,0100['  ]| For$3$ since thus wondrously he passed, it is plain
093:1,0101['  ]| One single place two bodies did contain,
093:1,0102['  ]| And sure the same omnipotence as well
093:1,0103['  ]| Can make one body in$4$ more places dwell.
093:1,0104['  ]| Let reason then at Her own quarry fly,
093:1,0105['  ]| But how can finite grasp infinity?
093:1,0106['  ]| It is urged again that$3$ faith did first commence
093:1,0107['  ]| By$4$ miracles, which$6#1$ are appeals to$4$ sense,
093:1,0108['  ]| And thence concluded that$3$ our sense must be
093:1,0109['  ]| The motive still of credibility.
093:1,0110['  ]| For$3$ latter ages must on$4$ former wait,
093:1,0111['  ]| And what began belief, must propagate.
093:1,0112['  ]| But winnow well this thought, and you shall find,
093:1,0113['  ]| It is light as chaff that$6#1$ flies before the wind.
093:1,0114['  ]| Were all those wonders wrought by$4$ power divine
093:1,0115['  ]| As means or ends of some more deep design?
093:1,0116['  ]| More sure as means, whose end was this alone,
093:1,0117['  ]| To$9$ prove the god-head of the eternal Son.
093:1,0118['  ]| God thus asserted: man is to$9$ believe
093:1,0119['  ]| Beyond what sense and reason can conceive,
093:1,0120['  ]| And for$4$ mysterious things of faith rely
093:1,0121['  ]| On$4$ the Proponent, heaven's authority.
093:1,0122['  ]| If then our faith we for$4$ our guide admit,
093:1,0123['  ]| Vain is the farther search of human wit,
093:1,0124['  ]| As when the building gains a surer stay,
093:1,0125['  ]| We take the unuseful scaffolding away:
093:1,0126['  ]| Reason by$4$ sense no$2$ more can understand,
093:1,0127['  ]| The game is played into another hand.
093:1,0128['  ]| Why choose we then like$4$ Bilanders to$9$ creep
093:1,0129['  ]| Along the coast, and land in$4$ view to$9$ keep,
093:1,0130['  ]| When safely we may launch into the deep?
093:1,0131['  ]| In$4$ the same vessel which$6#1$ our Saviour bore
093:1,0132['  ]| Himself the Pilot, let us leave the shore,
093:1,0133['  ]| And with a better guide a better world explore.
093:1,0134['  ]| Could He his god-head veil with flesh and blood
093:1,0135['  ]| And not veil these again to$9$ be our food?
093:1,0136['  ]| His grace in$4$ both is equal in$4$ extent,
093:1,0137['  ]| The first affords us life, the second nourishment.
093:1,0138['  ]| And if he can, why all this frantic pain
093:1,0139['  ]| To$9$ construe what his clearest words contain,
093:1,0140['  ]| And make a riddle what He made so$5#1$ plain?
093:1,0141['  ]| To$9$ take up$5$ half on$4$ trust, and half to$9$ try,
093:1,0142['  ]| Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry.
093:1,0143['  ]| Both knave and fool the Merchant we may call
093:1,0144['  ]| To$9$ pay great summs, and to$9$ compound the small.
093:1,0145['  ]| For$3$ who$6#2$ would break with heaven, and would not break for$4$ all?
093:1,0146['  ]| Rest then, my soul, from endless anguish freed;
093:1,0147['  ]| Nor sciences thy guide, nor sense thy creed.
093:1,0148['  ]| Faith is the best ensurer of thy bliss;
093:1,0149['  ]| The Bank above must fail before the venture miss.
093:1,0150['  ]| But heaven and heaven-born faith are far from Thee
093:1,0151['  ]| Thou first Apostate to$4$ Divinity.
093:1,0152['  ]| Unkennelled range in$4$ thy Polonian Plains;
093:1,0153['  ]| A fiercer foe the insatiate Wolf remains.
093:1,0154['  ]| Too boastful Britain please thyself no$2$ more,
093:1,0155['  ]| That$3$ beasts of prey are banished from thy shore:
093:1,0156['  ]| The Bear, the Boar, and every savage name,
093:1,0157['  ]| Wild in$4$ effect, though in$4$ appearance tame,
093:1,0158['  ]| Lay waste thy woods, destroy thy blissful bower,
093:1,0159['  ]| And muzzled though they seem, the mutes devour.
093:1,0160['  ]| More haughty than the rest the wolfish race,
093:1,0161['  ]| Appear with belly Gaunt, and famished face:
093:1,0162['  ]| Never was so$5#1$ deformed a beast of Grace.
093:1,0163['  ]| His ragged tail between his legs he wears
093:1,0164['  ]| Close clapped for$4$ shame, but his rough crest he rears,
093:1,0165['  ]| And pricks up$5$ his predestinating ears.
093:1,0166['  ]| His wild disordered walk, his haggard eyes,
093:1,0167['  ]| Did all the bestial citizens surprize.
093:1,0168['  ]| Though feared and hated, yet he ruled awhile
093:1,0169['  ]| As Captain or Companion of the spoil.
093:1,0170['  ]| Full many a year his hateful head had been
093:1,0171['  ]| For$4$ tribute paid, nor since in$4$ Cambria seen:
093:1,0172['  ]| The last of all the litter escaped by$4$ chance,
093:1,0173['  ]| And from Geneva first infested France.
093:1,0174['  ]| Some authors thus his pedigree will$1$ trace,
093:1,0175['  ]| But others write him of an upstart race:
093:1,0176['  ]| Because of Wickliff's brood no$2$ mark he brings
093:1,0177['  ]| But his innate antipathy to$4$ kings.
093:1,0178['  ]| These last deduce him from the Helvetian kind
093:1,0179['  ]| Who$6#1$ near the Leman lake his Consort lined.
093:1,0180['  ]| That$6#2$ fiery Zuynglius first the affection bred,
093:1,0181['  ]| And meagre Calvin blest the nuptial bed.
093:1,0182['  ]| In$4$ Israel some believe him whelped long since
093:1,0183['  ]| When the proud Sanhedrim oppressed the Prince.
093:1,0184['  ]| Or, since he will$1$ be Jew, derive him higher
093:1,0185['  ]| When Corah with his brethren did conspire,
093:1,0186['  ]| From Moyses hand the sovereign sway to$9$ wrest,
093:1,0187['  ]| And Aaron of his Ephod to$9$ divest:
093:1,0188['  ]| Till opening earth made way for$4$ all to$9$ pass,
093:1,0189['  ]| And could not bear the burden of a class.
093:1,0190['  ]| The Fox and he came shuffled in$4$ the dark,
093:1,0191['  ]| If ever they were stowed in$4$ Noah's ark:
093:1,0192['  ]| Perhaps not made; for$3$ all their barking train
093:1,0193['  ]| The Dog (a common species) will$1$ contain.
093:1,0194['  ]| And some wild curs, who$6#1$ from their masters ran
093:1,0195['  ]| Abhorring the supremacy of man,
093:1,0196['  ]| In$4$ woods and caves the rebel-race began.
093:1,0197['  ]| O happy pair, how well have you increased,
093:1,0198['  ]| What ills in$4$ Church and State have you redressed!
093:1,0199['  ]| With teeth untried, and rudiments of claws
093:1,0200['  ]| Your first essay was in$4$ your native laws:
093:1,0201['  ]| Those having torn with ease, and trampled down
093:1,0202['  ]| Your Fangs you fastened on$4$ the mitred crown,
093:1,0203['  ]| And freed from God and monarchy your town.
093:1,0204['  ]| What though your native kennel still be small
093:1,0205['  ]| Bounded between a puddle and a wall,
093:1,0206['  ]| Yet your victorious colonies are sent
093:1,0207['  ]| Where the north ocean girds the continent.
093:1,0208['  ]| Quickened with fire below your monsters breed,
093:1,0209['  ]| In$4$ Fenny Holland and in$4$ fruitful Tweed.
093:1,0210['  ]| And like$4$ the first the last affects to$9$ be
093:1,0211['  ]| Drawn to$4$ the dregs of a Democracy.
093:1,0212['  ]| As where in$4$ fields the fairy rounds are seen,
093:1,0213['  ]| A rank sour herbage rises on$4$ the green,
093:1,0214['  ]| So$3$, springing where these mid-night Elves advance,
093:1,0215['  ]| Rebellion prints the foot-steps of the Dance.
093:1,0216['  ]| Such are their doctrines, such contempt they show
093:1,0217['  ]| To$4$ heaven above, and to$4$ their Prince below,
093:1,0218['  ]| As none but Traitors and Blasphemers know.
093:1,0219['  ]| God, like$4$ the Tyrant of the skies is placed,
093:1,0220['  ]| And kings like$4$ slaves beneath the crowd debased.
093:1,0221['  ]| So$5#1$ fulsome is their food, that$3$ flocks refuse
093:1,0222['  ]| To$9$ bite, and only dogs for$4$ physic use.
093:1,0223['  ]| As where the lightning runs along the ground,
093:1,0224['  ]| No$2$ husbandry can heal the blasting wound,
093:1,0225['  ]| Nor bladed grass, nor bearded corn succeeds,
093:1,0226['  ]| But scales of scurf, and putrefaction breeds:
093:1,0227['  ]| Such wars, such waste, and such fiery tracks of dearth
093:1,0228['  ]| Their zeal has left, and such a teemless earth.
093:1,0229['  ]| But as the Poisons of the deadliest kind
093:1,0230['  ]| Are to$4$ their own unhappy coasts confined,
093:1,0231['  ]| As only Indian shades of sight deprive,
093:1,0232['  ]| And magic plants will$1$ but in$4$ Colchos thrive,
093:1,0233['  ]| So$3$ Presbytery and pestilential zeal
093:1,0234['  ]| Can only flourish in$4$ a common-weal.
093:1,0235['  ]| From Celtic woods is chased the wolfish crew;
093:1,0236['  ]| But ah! some pity even to$4$ brutes is due:
093:1,0237['  ]| Their native walks, methinks, they might enjoy
093:1,0238['  ]| Curbed of their native malice to$9$ destroy.
093:1,0239['  ]| Of all the tyrannies on$4$ human kind
093:1,0240['  ]| The worst is that$6#2$ which$6#1$ persecutes the mind.
093:1,0241['  ]| Let us but weigh at what offence we strike,
093:1,0242['  ]| It is but because we cannot think alike.
093:1,0243['  ]| In$4$ punishing of this, we overthrow
093:1,0244['  ]| The laws of nations and of nature too.
093:1,0245['  ]| Beasts are the subjects of tyrannic sway,
093:1,0246['  ]| Where still the stronger on$4$ the weaker prey.
093:1,0247['  ]| Man only of a softer mould is made;
093:1,0248['  ]| Not for$4$ his fellows' ruin, but their aid:
093:1,0249['  ]| Created kind, beneficent and free,
093:1,0250['  ]| The noble image of the Deity.
093:1,0251['  ]| One portion of informing fire was given
093:1,0252['  ]| To$4$ Brutes, the inferior family of heaven:
093:1,0253['  ]| The Smith divine, as with a careless beat,
093:1,0254['  ]| Struck out the mute creation at a heat:
093:1,0255['  ]| But, when arrived at last to$4$ human race,
093:1,0256['  ]| The god-head took a deep considering space:
093:1,0257['  ]| And, to$9$ distinguish man from all the rest,
093:1,0258['  ]| Unlocked the sacred treasures of his breast:
093:1,0259['  ]| And mercy mixed with reason did impart;
093:1,0260['  ]| One to$4$ his head, the other to$4$ his heart:
093:1,0261['  ]| Reason to$9$ rule, but mercy to$9$ forgive:
093:1,0262['  ]| The first is law, the last prerogative.
093:1,0263['  ]| And like$4$ his mind his outward form appeared;
093:1,0264['  ]| When issuing naked, to$4$ the wondering herd
093:1,0265['  ]| He charmed their eyes, and for$3$ they loved, they feared.
093:1,0266['  ]| Not armed with horns of arbitrary might,
093:1,0267['  ]| Or claws to$9$ seize their furry spoils in$4$ fight,
093:1,0268['  ]| Or with increase of feet to$9$ overtake them in$4$ their flight.
093:1,0269['  ]| Of easie shape, and pliant every way;
093:1,0270['  ]| Confessing still the softness of his clay,
093:1,0271['  ]| And kind as kings upon$4$ their coronation day:
093:1,0272['  ]| With open hands, and with extended space
093:1,0273['  ]| Of arms, to$9$ satisfy a large embrace.
093:1,0274['  ]| Thus kneaded up$5$ with milk, the new made man
093:1,0275['  ]| His kingdom over his kindred world began:
093:1,0276['  ]| Till knowledge misapplied, misunderstood,
093:1,0277['  ]| And pride of Empire soured his balmy blood.
093:1,0278['  ]| Then, first rebelling, his own stamp he coins;
093:1,0279['  ]| The murderer Cain was latent in$4$ his loins,
093:1,0280['  ]| And blood began its first and loudest cry
093:1,0281['  ]| For$4$ differing worship of the Deity.
093:1,0282['  ]| Thus persecution rose, and farther space
093:1,0283['  ]| Produced the mighty hunter of his race.
093:1,0284['  ]| Not so$5#2$ the blessed Pan his flock increased,
093:1,0285['  ]| Content to$9$ fold them from the famished beast:
093:1,0286['  ]| Mild were his laws; the Sheep and harmless Hind
093:1,0287['  ]| Were never of the persecuting kind.
093:1,0288['  ]| Such pity now the pious Pastor shows,
093:1,0289['  ]| Such mercy from the British Lion flows,
093:1,0290['  ]| That$3$ both provide protection for$4$ their foes.
093:1,0291['  ]| O happy Regions, Italy and Spain,
093:1,0292['  ]| Which$6#1$ never did those monsters entertain!
093:1,0293['  ]| The Wolf, the Bear, the Boar, can there advance
093:1,0294['  ]| No$2$ native claim of just inheritance.
093:1,0295['  ]| And self-preserving laws, severe in$4$ show,
093:1,0296['  ]| May guard their fences from the invading foe.
093:1,0297['  ]| Where birth has placed them let them safely share
093:1,0298['  ]| The common benefit of vital air.
093:1,0299['  ]| Themselves unharmful, let them live unharmed;
093:1,0300['  ]| Their jaws disabled, and their claws disarmed:
093:1,0301['  ]| Here, only in$4$ nocturnal howlings bold,
093:1,0302['  ]| They dare not seize the Hind nor leap the fold.
093:1,0303['  ]| More powerful, and as vigilant as they,
093:1,0304['  ]| The Lion awfully forbids the prey.
093:1,0305['  ]| Their rage repressed, though pinched with famine sore,
093:1,0306['  ]| They stand aloof, and tremble at his roar;
093:1,0307['  ]| Much is their hunger, but their fear is more.
093:1,0308['  ]| These are the chief; to$9$ number over the rest,
093:1,0309['  ]| And stand, like$4$ Adam, naming every beast,
093:1,0310['  ]| Were weary work; nor will$1$ the Muse describe
093:1,0311['  ]| A slimy-born and sun-begotten Tribe:
093:1,0312['  ]| Who$6#1$, far from steeples and their sacred sound,
093:1,0313['  ]| In$4$ fields their sullen conventicles found:
093:1,0314['  ]| These gross, half-animated lumps I leave;
093:1,0315['  ]| Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive.
093:1,0316['  ]| But if they think at all, it is sure no$2$ higher
093:1,0317['  ]| Than matter, put in$4$ motion, may aspire.
093:1,0318['  ]| Souls that$6#1$ can scarce ferment their mass of clay;
093:1,0319['  ]| So$5#1$ drossy, so$5#1$ divisible are They,
093:1,0320['  ]| As would but serve pure bodies for$4$ allay:
093:1,0321['  ]| Such souls as Shards produce, such beetle things
093:1,0322['  ]| As only buzz to$4$ heaven with evening wings;
093:1,0323['  ]| Strike in$4$ the dark, offending but by$4$ chance,
093:1,0324['  ]| Such are the blind-fold blows of ignorance.
093:1,0325['  ]| They know not beings, and but hate a name,
093:1,0326['  ]| To$4$ them the Hind and Panther are the same.
093:1,0327['  ]| The Panther sure the noblest, next the Hind,
093:1,0328['  ]| And fairest creature of the spotted kind;
093:1,0329['  ]| Oh, could her in-born stains be washed away,
093:1,0330['  ]| She were too good to$9$ be a beast of Prey!
093:1,0331['  ]| How can I praise, or blame, and not offend,
093:1,0332['  ]| Or how divide the frailty from the friend?
093:1,0333['  ]| Her faults and virtues lie so$5#1$ mixed, that$3$ she
093:1,0334['  ]| Nor wholly stands condemned, nor wholly free.
093:1,0335['  ]| Then, like$4$ her injured Lion, let me speak,
093:1,0336['  ]| He can not bend her, and he would not break.
093:1,0337['  ]| Unkind already, and estranged in$4$ part,
093:1,0338['  ]| The Wolf begins to$9$ share her wandering heart.
093:1,0339['  ]| Though unpolluted yet with actual ill,
093:1,0340['  ]| She half commits, who$6#1$ sins but in$4$ Her will$0$.
093:1,0341['  ]| If, as our dreaming Platonists report,
093:1,0342['  ]| There could be spirits of a middle sort,
093:1,0343['  ]| Too black for$4$ heaven, and yet too white for$4$ hell,
093:1,0344['  ]| Who$6#1$ just dropt half way down, nor lower fell;
093:1,0345['  ]| So$5#1$ poised, so$5#1$ gently she descends from high,
093:1,0346['  ]| It seems a soft dismission from the sky.
093:1,0347['  ]| Her house not ancient, whatsoever pretence
093:1,0348['  ]| Her clergy Heralds make in$4$ her defence:
093:1,0349['  ]| A second century not half-way run
093:1,0350['  ]| Since the new honours of her blood begun.
093:1,0351['  ]| A Lion old, obscene, and furious made
093:1,0352['  ]| By$4$ lust, compressed her mother in$4$ a shade;
093:1,0353['  ]| Then, by$4$ a left-hand marriage weds the Dame,
093:1,0354['  ]| Covering adultery with a specious name:
093:1,0355['  ]| So$3$ schism begot; and sacrilege and she,
093:1,0356['  ]| A well-matched pair, got graceless heresy.
093:1,0357['  ]| God's and king's rebels have the same good caus,
093:1,0358['  ]| To$9$ trample down divine and human laws:
093:1,0359['  ]| Both would be called Reformers, and their hate,
093:1,0360['  ]| Alike destructive both to$4$ church and state:
093:1,0361['  ]| The fruit proclaims the plant; a lawless Prince
093:1,0362['  ]| By$4$ luxury reformed incontinence,
093:1,0363['  ]| By$4$ ruins, charity; by$4$ riots, abstinence.
093:1,0364['  ]| Confessions, fasts and penance set aside;
093:1,0365['  ]| Oh with what ease we follow such a guide!
093:1,0366['  ]| Where souls are starved, and senses gratified.
093:1,0367['  ]| Where marriage pleasures, midnight prayer supply,
093:1,0368['  ]| And matin bells (a melancholy cry)
093:1,0369['  ]| Are tuned to$4$ merrier notes, increase and multiply.
093:1,0370['  ]| Religion shows a Rosy coloured face;
093:1,0371['  ]| Not hattered out with drudging works of grace;
093:1,0372['  ]| A down-hill Reformation rolls apace.
093:1,0373['  ]| What flesh and blood would crowd the narrow gate,
093:1,0374['  ]| Or, till they waste their pampered paunches, wait?
093:1,0375['  ]| All would be happy at the cheapest rate.
093:1,0376['  ]| Though our lean faith these rigid laws has given,
093:1,0377['  ]| The full fed Musulman goes fat to$4$ heaven;
093:1,0378['  ]| For$3$ his Arabian Prophet with delights
093:1,0379['  ]| Of sense, allured his eastern Proselytes.
093:1,0380['  ]| The jolly Luther reading him, began
093:1,0381['  ]| To$9$ interpret Scriptures by$4$ his Alcoran;
093:1,0382['  ]| To$9$ grub the thorns beneath our tender feet,
093:1,0383['  ]| And make the paths of Paradise more sweet:
093:1,0384['  ]| Bethought him of a wife before half way gone,
093:1,0385['  ]| (For$3$ it was uneasy travailing alone;)
093:1,0386['  ]| And in$4$ this masquerade of mirth and love,
093:1,0387['  ]| Mistook the bliss of heaven for$4$ Bacchanals above.
093:1,0388['  ]| Sure he presumed of praise, who$6#1$ came to$9$ stock
093:1,0389['  ]| The ethereal pastures with so$5#1$ fair a flock,
093:1,0390['  ]| Burnished, and battening on$4$ their food, to$9$ show
093:1,0391['  ]| The diligence of careful herds below.
093:1,0392['  ]| Our Panther though like$4$ these she changed her head,
093:1,0393['  ]| Yet, as the mistress of a monarch's bed,
093:1,0394['  ]| Her front erect with majesty she bore,
093:1,0395['  ]| The Crozier wielded, and the Mitre wore.
093:1,0396['  ]| Her upper part of decent discipline
093:1,0397['  ]| Showed affectation of an ancient line:
093:1,0398['  ]| And fathers, councils, church and churches head,
093:1,0399['  ]| Were on$4$ her reverend Phylacteries read.
093:1,0400['  ]| But what disgraced and disavowed the rest,
093:1,0401['  ]| Was Calvin's brand, that$6#1$ stigmatized the beast.
093:1,0402['  ]| Thus, like$4$ a creature of a double kind,
093:1,0403['  ]| In$4$ her own labyrinth she lives confined.
093:1,0404['  ]| To$4$ foreign lands no$2$ sound of Her is come,
093:1,0405['  ]| Humbly content to$9$ be despised at home.
093:1,0406['  ]| Such is her faith, where good cannot be had,
093:1,0407['  ]| At last she leaves the refuse of the bad,
093:1,0408['  ]| Nice in$4$ her choice of ill, though not of best,
093:1,0409['  ]| And last deformed, because reformed the least.
093:1,0410['  ]| In$4$ doubtful points between her differing friends,
093:1,0411['  ]| Where one for$4$ substance, one for$4$ sign contends,
093:1,0412['  ]| Their contradicting terms she strives to$9$ join,
093:1,0413['  ]| Sign shall be substance, substance shall be sign.
093:1,0414['  ]| A real presence all her sons allow,
093:1,0415['  ]| And yet it is flat Idolatry to$9$ bow,
093:1,0416['  ]| Because the god-head is there they know not how.
093:1,0417['  ]| Her Novices are taught that$3$ bread and wine
093:1,0418['  ]| Are but the visible and outward sign
093:1,0419['  ]| Received by$4$ those who$6#1$ in$4$ communion join.
093:1,0420['  ]| But the inward grace, or the thing signified,
093:1,0421['  ]| His blood and body, who$6#1$ to$9$ save us died;
093:1,0422['  ]| The faithful this thing signified receive.
093:1,0423['  ]| What is it those faithful then partake or leave?
093:1,0424['  ]| For$3$ what is signified and understood,
093:1,0425['  ]| Is, by$4$ her own confession, flesh and blood.
093:1,0426['  ]| Then, by$4$ the same acknowledgement, we know
093:1,0427['  ]| They take the sign, and take the substance too.
093:1,0428['  ]| The literal sense is hard to$4$ flesh and blood,
093:1,0429['  ]| But nonsense never can be understood.
093:1,0430['  ]| Her wild belief on$4$ every wave is tossed,
093:1,0431['  ]| But sure no$2$ church can better morals boast.
093:1,0432['  ]| True to$4$ her king her principles are found;
093:1,0433['  ]| Oh that$3$ her practice were but half so$5#1$ sound!
093:1,0434['  ]| Steadfast in$4$ various turns of state she stood,
093:1,0435['  ]| And sealed her vowed affection with her blood;
093:1,0436['  ]| Nor will$1$ I meanly tax her constancy,
093:1,0437['  ]| That$3$ interest or obligement made the tie,
093:1,0438['  ]| (Bound to$4$ the fate of murdered Monarchy:)
093:1,0439['  ]| (Before the sounding Axe so$5#2$ falls the Vine,
093:1,0440['  ]| Whose tender branches round the Poplar twine.)
093:1,0441['  ]| She chose her ruin, and resigned her life,
093:1,0442['  ]| In$4$ death undaunted as an Indian wife;
093:1,0443['  ]| A rare example: but some souls we see
093:1,0444['  ]| Grow hard, and stiffen with adversity:
093:1,0445['  ]| Yet these by$4$ fortunes favours are undone,
093:1,0446['  ]| Resolved into a baser form they run,
093:1,0447['  ]| And bore the wind, but cannot bear the sun.
093:1,0448['  ]| Let this be nature's frailty or her fate,
093:1,0449['  ]| Or Isgrim's counsel, her new chosen mate;
093:1,0450['  ]| Still she is the fairest of the fallen crew,
093:1,0451['  ]| No$2$ mother more indulgent but the true.
093:1,0452['  ]| Fierce to$4$ her foes, yet fears her force to$9$ try,
093:1,0453['  ]| Because she wants innate authority;
093:1,0454['  ]| For$3$ how can she constrain them to$9$ obey
093:1,0455['  ]| Who$6#1$ has herself cast off the lawful sway?
093:1,0456['  ]| Rebellion equals all, and those who$6#1$ toil
093:1,0457['  ]| In$4$ common theft, will$1$ share the common spoil.
093:1,0458['  ]| Let her produce the title and the right
093:1,0459['  ]| Against her old superiors first to$9$ fight;
093:1,0460['  ]| If she reform by$4$ Text, even that$6#2$ is as plain
093:1,0461['  ]| For$4$ her own Rebels to$9$ reform again.
093:1,0462['  ]| As long as words a different sense will$1$ bear,
093:1,0463['  ]| And each may be his own Interpreter,
093:1,0464['  ]| Our airy faith will$1$ no$2$ foundation find:
093:1,0465['  ]| The word is a weathercock for$4$ every wind:
093:1,0466['  ]| The Bear, the Fox, the Wolf, by$4$ turns prevail,
093:1,0467['  ]| The most in$4$ power supplies the present gale.
093:1,0468['  ]| The wretched Panther cries aloud for$4$ aid
093:1,0469['  ]| To$4$ church and councils, whom she first betrayed;
093:1,0470['  ]| No$2$ help from Fathers or traditions train,
093:1,0471['  ]| Those ancient guides she taught us to$9$ disdain.
093:1,0472['  ]| And by$4$ that$6#2$ scripture which$6#1$ she once abused
093:1,0473['  ]| To$4$ Reformation, stands herself accused.
093:1,0474['  ]| What bills for$4$ breath of laws can she prefer,
093:1,0475['  ]| Expounding which$6#1$ she owns herself may err?
093:1,0476['  ]| And, after all her winding ways are tried,
093:1,0477['  ]| If doubts arise she slips herself aside,
093:1,0478['  ]| And leaves the private conscience for$4$ the guide.
093:1,0479['  ]| If then that$6#2$ conscience set the offender free,
093:1,0480['  ]| It bars her claim to$4$ church authority.
093:1,0481['  ]| How can she censure, or what crime pretend,
093:1,0482['  ]| But Scripture may be construed to$9$ defend?
093:1,0483['  ]| Even those whom for$4$ rebellion she transmits
093:1,0484['  ]| To$4$ civil power, her doctrine first acquits;
093:1,0485['  ]| Because no$2$ disobedience can ensue,
093:1,0486['  ]| Where no$2$ submission to$4$ a Judge is due,
093:1,0487['  ]| Each judging for$4$ himself, by$4$ her consent,
093:1,0488['  ]| Whom thus absolved she sends to$4$ punishment.
093:1,0489['  ]| Suppose the Magistrate revenge her cause,
093:1,0490['  ]| It is only for$4$ transgressing human laws.
093:1,0491['  ]| How answering to$4$ its end a church is made,
093:1,0492['  ]| Whose power is but to$9$ counsel and persuade?
093:1,0493['  ]| O solid rock, on$4$ which$6#1$ secure she stands!
093:1,0494['  ]| Eternal house, not built with mortal hands!
093:1,0495['  ]| O sure defence against the infernal gate,
093:1,0496['  ]| A patent during pleasure of the state!
093:1,0497['  ]| Thus is the Panther neither loved nor feared,
093:1,0498['  ]| A mere mock Queen of a divided Herd;
093:1,0499['  ]| Whom soon by$4$ lawful power she might control.
093:1,0500['  ]| Herself a part submitted to$4$ the whole.
093:1,0501['  ]| Then, as the Moon who$6#1$ first receives the light
093:1,0502['  ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ she makes our nether regions bright,
093:1,0503['  ]| So$3$ might she shine, reflecting from afar
093:1,0504['  ]| The rays she borrowed from a better star:
093:1,0505['  ]| Big with the beams which$6#1$ from her mother flow
093:1,0506['  ]| And reigning over the rising tides below:
093:1,0507['  ]| Now, mixing with a savage crowd, she goes
093:1,0508['  ]| And meanly flatters her inveterate foes.
093:1,0509['  ]| Ruled while she rules, and losing every hour
093:1,0510['  ]| Her wretched remnants of precarious power.
093:1,0511['  ]| One evening while the cooler shade she sought,
093:1,0512['  ]| Revolving many a melancholy thought,
093:1,0513['  ]| Alone she walked, and looked around in$4$ vain,
093:1,0514['  ]| With rueful visage for$4$ her vanished train:
093:1,0515['  ]| None of her sylvan subjects made their court;
093:1,0516['  ]| Levees and couchees passed without resort.
093:1,0517['  ]| So$5#1$ hardly can Usurpers manage well
093:1,0518['  ]| Those, whom they first instructed to$9$ rebel:
093:1,0519['  ]| More liberty begets desire of more,
093:1,0520['  ]| The hunger still increases with the store.
093:1,0521['  ]| Without respect they brushed along the wood
093:1,0522['  ]| Each in$4$ his clan, and filled with loathsome food
093:1,0523['  ]| Asked no$2$ permission to$4$ the neighbouring flood.
093:1,0524['  ]| The Panther full of inward discontent
093:1,0525['  ]| Since they would go, before them wisely went:
093:1,0526['  ]| Supplying want of power by$4$ drinking first,
093:1,0527['  ]| As if she gave them leave to$9$ quench their thirst.
093:1,0528['  ]| Among the rest, the Hind, with fearful face
093:1,0529['  ]| Beheld from far the common watering place,
093:1,0530['  ]| Nor durst approach; till with an awful roar
093:1,0531['  ]| The sovereign Lion bade her fear no$2$ more.
093:1,0532['  ]| Encouraged thus she brought her younglings nigh,
093:1,0533['  ]| Watching the motions of her Patron's eye,
093:1,0534['  ]| And drank a sober draught; the rest amazed
093:1,0535['  ]| Stood mutely still, and on$4$ the stranger gazed:
093:1,0536['  ]| Surveyed her part by$4$ part, and sought to$9$ find
093:1,0537['  ]| The ten-horned monster in$4$ the harmless Hind,
093:1,0538['  ]| Such as the Wolf and Panther had designed.
093:1,0539['  ]| They thought at first they dreamed, for$3$ it was offence
093:1,0540['  ]| With them, to$9$ question certitude of sense,
093:1,0541['  ]| Their guide in$4$ faith; but nearer when they drew,
093:1,0542['  ]| And had the faultless object full in$4$ view,
093:1,0543['  ]| Lord, how they all admired her heavenly hue!
093:1,0544['  ]| Some, who$6#1$ before her fellowship disdained,
093:1,0545['  ]| Scarce, and but scarce, from in-born rage restrained,
093:1,0546['  ]| Now frisked about her, and old kindred feigned.
093:1,0547['  ]| Whether for$4$ love or interest, every sect
093:1,0548['  ]| Of all the savage nation shewed respect:
093:1,0549['  ]| The Vice-roy Panther could not awe the herd,
093:1,0550['  ]| The more the company the less they feared.
093:1,0551['  ]| The surly Wolf with secret envy burst,
093:1,0552['  ]| Yet could not howl, the Hind had seen him first:
093:1,0553['  ]| But what he durst not speak, the Panther durst.
093:1,0554['  ]| For$3$ when the herd suffised did late repair
093:1,0555['  ]| To$4$ ferny heaths, and to$4$ their forest lair,
093:1,0556['  ]| She made a mannerly excuse to$9$ stay,
093:1,0557['  ]| Proffering the Hind to$9$ wait her half the way:
093:1,0558['  ]| That$3$ since the Sky was clear, an hour of talk,
093:1,0559['  ]| Might help her to$9$ beguile the tedious walk.
093:1,0560['  ]| With much good-will the motion was embraced,
093:1,0561['  ]| To$9$ chat awhile on$4$ their adventures passed:
093:1,0562['  ]| Nor had the grateful Hind so$5#1$ soon forgot
093:1,0563['  ]| Her friend and fellow-sufferer in$4$ the plot.
093:1,0564['  ]| Yet wondering how of late she grew estranged,
093:1,0565['  ]| Her forehead cloudy, and her countenance changed,
093:1,0566['  ]| She thought this hour the occasion would present
093:1,0567['  ]| To$9$ learn her secret cause of discontent,
093:1,0568['  ]| Which$6#1$, well she hoped, might be with ease redressed,
093:1,0569['  ]| Considering Her a well-bred civil beast,
093:1,0570['  ]| And more a Gentlewoman than the rest.
093:1,0571['  ]| After some common talk what rumours ran,
093:1,0572['  ]| The Lady of the spotted-muff began.
093:2,0000['  ]| <The Hind and the Panther:>
093:2,0000['  ]| <The Second Part>
093:2,0001[B  ]| DAME, 
093:2,0001['  ]| said the panther, 
093:2,0001[B  ]| times are mended well
093:2,0002[B  ]| Since late among the Philistines you fell,
093:2,0003[B  ]| The toils were pitched, a spacious tract of ground
093:2,0004[B  ]| With expert hunts-men was encompassed round;
093:2,0005[B  ]| The Enclosure narrowed; the sagacious power
093:2,0006[B  ]| Of hounds and death, drew nearer every hour.
093:2,0007[B  ]| It is true, the younger Lion escaped the snare,
093:2,0008[B  ]| But all your priestly calves lay struggling there;
093:2,0009[B  ]| As sacrifics on$4$ their Altars laid;
093:2,0010[B  ]| While you their careful mother wisely fled
093:2,0011[B  ]| Not trusting destiny to$9$ save your head.
093:2,0012[B  ]| For$3$, whatever promises you have applied
093:2,0013[B  ]| To$4$ your unfailing church, the surer side
093:2,0014[B  ]| Is four fair legs in$4$ danger to$9$ provide.
093:2,0015[B  ]| And whatever tales of Peter's chair you tell,
093:2,0016[B  ]| Yet, saving reverence of the miracle,
093:2,0017[B  ]| The better luck was yours to$9$ escape so$5#1$ well.
093:2,0018[A  ]| As I remember, 
093:2,0018['  ]| said the sober Hind,
093:2,0019[A  ]| Those toils were for$4$ your own dear self designed,
093:2,0020[A  ]| As well as me; and, with the self same throw,
093:2,0021[A  ]| To$9$ catch the quarry, and the vermin too,
093:2,0022[A  ]| (Forgive the slanderous tongues that$6#1$ called you so$5#2$.)
093:2,0023[A  ]| However you take it now, the common cry
093:2,0024[A  ]| Then ran you down for$4$ your rank loyalty;
093:2,0025[A  ]| Besides, in$4$ Popery they thought you nursed,
093:2,0026[A  ]| (As evil tongues will$1$ ever speak the worst,)
093:2,0027[A  ]| Because some forms, and ceremonies some
093:2,0028[A  ]| You kept, and stood in$4$ the main question dumb.
093:2,0029[A  ]| Dumb you were born indeed, but thinking long
093:2,0030[A  ]| The Test it seems at last has loosed your tongue.
093:2,0031[A  ]| And, to$9$ explain what your forefathers meant,
093:2,0032[A  ]| By$4$ real presence in$4$ the sacrament,
093:2,0033[A  ]| (After long fencing pushed, against a wall,)
093:2,0034[A  ]| Your salvo comes, that$3$ he is not there at all:
093:2,0035[A  ]| There changed your faith, and what may change may fall.
093:2,0036[A  ]| Who$6#2$ can believe what varies every day,
093:2,0037[A  ]| Nor ever was, nor will$1$ be at a stay?
093:2,0038[B  ]| Tortures may force the tongue untruths to$9$ tell,
093:2,0039[B  ]| And I never owned myself infallible,
093:2,0040['  ]| Replied the Panther; 
093:2,0040[B  ]| grant such Presence were,
093:2,0041[B  ]| Yet in$4$ your sense I never owned it there.
093:2,0042[B  ]| A real virtue we by$4$ faith receive,
093:2,0043[B  ]| And that$3$ we in$4$ the sacrament believe.
093:2,0044[A  ]| Then 
093:2,0044['  ]| said the Hind, 
093:2,0044[A  ]| as you the matter state
093:2,0045[A  ]| Not only Jesuits can equivocate;
093:2,0046[A  ]| For$3$ real, as you now the word expound,
093:2,0047[A  ]| From solid substance dwindles to$4$ a sound.
093:2,0048[A  ]| Methinks as AEsop's fable you repeat,
093:2,0049[A  ]| You know who$6#1$ took the shadow for$4$ the meat:
093:2,0050[A  ]| Your church's substance thus you change at will$0$,
093:2,0051[A  ]| And yet retain your former figure still.
093:2,0052[A  ]| I freely grant you spoke to$9$ save your life,
093:2,0053[A  ]| For$3$ then you lay beneath the butcher's knife.
093:2,0054[A  ]| Long time you fought, redoubled battery bore,
093:2,0055[A  ]| But, after all, against yourself you swore;
093:2,0056[A  ]| Your former self, for$3$ every hour your form
093:2,0057[A  ]| Is chopped and changed, like$4$ winds before a storm.
093:2,0058[A  ]| Thus fear and interest will$1$ prevail with some,
093:2,0059[A  ]| For$3$ all have not the gift of martyrdom.
093:2,0060['  ]| The Panther grinned at this, and thus replied;
093:2,0061[B  ]| That$3$ men may err was never yet denied.
093:2,0062[B  ]| But, if that$6#2$ common principle be true,
093:2,0063[B  ]| The Cannon, Dame, is levelled full at you.
093:2,0064[B  ]| But, shunning long disputes, I fain would see
093:2,0065[B  ]| That$6#2$ wondrous wight Infallibility.
093:2,0066[B  ]| Is he from heaven this mighty champion come,
093:2,0067[B  ]| Or lodged below in$4$ subterranean Rome?
093:2,0068[B  ]| First, seat him somewhere, and derive his race,
093:2,0069[B  ]| Or else conclude that$3$ nothing has no$2$ place.
093:2,0070[A  ]| Suppose (though I disown it) 
093:2,0070['  ]| said the Hind,
093:2,0071[A  ]| The certain mansion were not yet assigned,
093:2,0072[A  ]| The doubtful residence no$2$ proof can bring
093:2,0073[A  ]| Against the plain existence of the thing.
093:2,0074[A  ]| Because Philosophers may disagree,
093:2,0075[A  ]| If sight by$4$ emission or reception be,
093:2,0076[A  ]| Shall it be thence inferred, I do not see?
093:2,0077[A  ]| But you require an answer positive,
093:2,0078[A  ]| Which$6#1$ yet, when I demand, you dare not give,
093:2,0079[A  ]| For$3$ fallacies in$4$ Universals live.
093:2,0080[A  ]| I then affirm that$3$ this unfailing guide
093:2,0081[A  ]| In$4$ Pope and general councils must reside;
093:2,0082[A  ]| Both lawful, both combined, what one decrees
093:2,0083[A  ]| By$4$ numerous votes, the other ratifies:
093:2,0084[A  ]| On$4$ this undoubted sense the church relies.
093:2,0085[A  ]| It is true, some Doctors in$4$ a scantier space,
093:2,0086[A  ]| I mean in$4$ each apart contract the place.
093:2,0087[A  ]| Some, who$6#1$ to$4$ greater length extend the line,
093:2,0088[A  ]| The churches after acceptation join.
093:2,0089[A  ]| This last circumference appears too wide,
093:2,0090[A  ]| The church diffused is by$4$ the council tied;
093:2,0091[A  ]| As members by$4$ their representatives
093:2,0092[A  ]| Obliged to$4$ laws which$6#1$ Prince and Senate gives:
093:2,0093[A  ]| Thus some contract, and some enlarge the space;
093:2,0094[A  ]| In$4$ Pope and council who$6#1$ denies the place,
093:2,0095[A  ]| Assisted from above with God's unfailing grace?
093:2,0096[A  ]| Those Canons all the needful points contain;
093:2,0097[A  ]| Their sense so$5#1$ obvious, and their words so$5#1$ plain,
093:2,0098[A  ]| That$3$ no$2$ disputes about the doubtful Text
093:2,0099[A  ]| Have, hitherto, the labouring world perplexed:
093:2,0100[A  ]| If any should in$4$ after times appear,
093:2,0101[A  ]| New Councils must be called, to$9$ make the meaning clear
093:2,0102[A  ]| Because in$4$ them the power supreme resides;
093:2,0103[A  ]| And all the promises are to$4$ the guides.
093:2,0104[A  ]| This may be taught with sound and safe defence:
093:2,0105[A  ]| But mark how sandy is your own pretence,
093:2,0106[A  ]| Who$6#1$ setting Councils, Pope, and Church aside,
093:2,0107[A  ]| Are every man his own presuming guide.
093:2,0108[A  ]| The sacred books, you say, are full and plain,
093:2,0109[A  ]| And every needful point of truth contain:
093:2,0110[A  ]| All who$6#1$ can read, Interpreters may be:
093:2,0111[A  ]| Thus though your several churches disagree,
093:2,0112[A  ]| Yet every Saint has to$4$ himself alone
093:2,0113[A  ]| The secret of this Philosophic stone.
093:2,0114[A  ]| These principles your jarring sects unite,
093:2,0115[A  ]| When differing Doctors and disciples fight;
093:2,0116[A  ]| Though Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, holy chiefs
093:2,0117[A  ]| Have made a battle Royal of beliefs;
093:2,0118[A  ]| Or like$4$ wild horses several ways have whirled
093:2,0119[A  ]| The tortured Text about the Christian World;
093:2,0120[A  ]| Each Jehu lashing on$5$ with furious force,
093:2,0121[A  ]| That$3$ Turk or Jew could not have used it worse.
093:2,0122[A  ]| No$2$ matter what dissention leaders make
093:2,0123[A  ]| Where every private man may save a stake,
093:2,0124[A  ]| Ruled by$4$ the Scripture and his own advice
093:2,0125[A  ]| Each has a blind by-path to$4$ Paradise;
093:2,0126[A  ]| Where driving in$4$ a circle slow or fast,
093:2,0127[A  ]| Opposing sects are sure to$9$ meet at last.
093:2,0128[A  ]| A wondrous charity you have in$4$ store
093:2,0129[A  ]| For$4$ all reformed to$9$ pass the narrow door:
093:2,0130[A  ]| So$5#1$ much, that$3$ Mahomet had scarcely more.
093:2,0131[A  ]| For$3$ he, kind Prophet, was for$4$ damning none,
093:2,0132[A  ]| But Christ and Moyses were to$9$ save their own:
093:2,0133[A  ]| Himself was to$9$ secure his chosen race,
093:2,0134[A  ]| Though reason good for$4$ Turks to$9$ take the place,
093:2,0135[A  ]| And he allowed to$9$ be the better man
093:2,0136[A  ]| In$4$ virtue of his holier Alcoran.
093:2,0137[B  ]| True, 
093:2,0137['  ]| said the Panther, I shall never deny
093:2,0138[B  ]| My brethren may be saved as well as I:
093:2,0139[B  ]| Though Huguenots contemn our ordination,
093:2,0140[B  ]| Succession, ministerial vocation,
093:2,0141[B  ]| And Luther, more mistaking what he read,
093:2,0142[B  ]| Misjoins the sacred Body with the Bread;
093:2,0143[B  ]| Yet Lady, still remember I maintain,
093:2,0144[B  ]| The Word in$4$ needful points is only plain.
093:2,0145[A  ]| Needless or needful I not now contend,
093:2,0146[A  ]| For$3$ still you have a loop-hole for$4$ a friend,
093:2,0147[A  ]| (Rejoined the Matron) 
093:2,0147['  ]| but the rule you lay
093:2,0148[A  ]| Has led whole flocks, and leads them still astray
093:2,0149[A  ]| In$4$ weighty points, and full damnation's way.
093:2,0150[A  ]| For$3$ did not Arius first, Socinus now,
093:2,0151[A  ]| The son's eternal god-head disavow,
093:2,0152[A  ]| And did not these by$4$ Gospel Texts alone
093:2,0153[A  ]| Condemn our doctrine, and maintain their own?
093:2,0154[A  ]| Have not all heretics the same pretence
093:2,0155[A  ]| To$9$ plead the Scriptures in$4$ their own defence?
093:2,0156[A  ]| How did the Nicene council then decide
093:2,0157[A  ]| That$6#2$ strong debate, was it by$4$ Scripture tried?
093:2,0158[A  ]| No$7$, sure to$4$ those the Rebel would not yield,
093:2,0159[A  ]| Squadrons of Texts he marshalled in$4$ the field;
093:2,0160[A  ]| That$6#2$ was but civil war, an equal set,
093:2,0161[A  ]| Where Piles with piles, and eagles Eagles met.
093:2,0162[A  ]| With Texts point-blank and plain he faced the Foe:
093:2,0163[A  ]| And did not Sathan tempt our Saviour so$5#2$?
093:2,0164[A  ]| The good old Bishops took a simpler way,
093:2,0165[A  ]| Each asked but what he heard his Father say,
093:2,0166[A  ]| Or how he was instructed in$4$ his youth,
093:2,0167[A  ]| And by$4$ tradition's force upheld the truth.
093:2,0168['  ]| The Panther smiled at this, 
093:2,0168[B  ]| and when, 
093:2,0168['  ]| said she,
093:2,0169[B  ]| Were those first Councils disallowed by$4$ me?
093:2,0170[B  ]| Or where did I at sure tradition strike,
093:2,0171[B  ]| Provided still it were Apostolic?
093:2,0172[A  ]| Friend, 
093:2,0172['  ]| said the Hind, 
093:2,0172['  ]| you quit your former ground,
093:2,0173[A  ]| Where all your Faith you did on$4$ Scripture found;
093:2,0174[A  ]| Now it is tradition joined with holy writ,
093:2,0175[A  ]| But thus your memory betrays your wit.
093:2,0176[B  ]| No$7$, said the Panther, for$3$ in$4$ that$6#2$ I view,
093:2,0177[B  ]| When your tradition is forged, and when it is true.
093:2,0178[B  ]| I set them by$4$ the rule, and as they square
093:2,0179[B  ]| Or deviate from undoubted doctrine there
093:2,0180[B  ]| This Oral fiction, that$6#2$ old Faith declare.
093:2,0181[A  ]| <(Hind.)>The Council steered it seems a different course,
093:2,0182[A  ]| They tried the Scripture by$4$ tradition's force;
093:2,0183[A  ]| But you tradition by$4$ the Scriptures try;
093:2,0184[A  ]| Pursued, by$4$ Sects, from this to$4$ that$6#2$ you fly,
093:2,0185[A  ]| Nor dare on$4$ one foundation to$9$ rely.
093:2,0186[A  ]| The word is then deposed, and in$4$ this view,
093:2,0187[A  ]| You rule the Scripture, not the Scripture you.
093:2,0188[A  ]| Thus said the Dame, and, smiling, thus pursued,
093:2,0189[A  ]| I see tradition then is disallowed,
093:2,0190[A  ]| When not evinced by$4$ Scripture to$9$ be true,
093:2,0191[A  ]| And Scripture, as interpretd by$4$ you.
093:2,0192[A  ]| But here you tread upon$4$ unfaithful ground;
093:2,0193[A  ]| Unless you could infallibly expound;
093:2,0194[A  ]| Which$6#1$ you reject as odious Popery,
093:2,0195[A  ]| And throw that$6#2$ doctrine back with scorn on$4$ me.
093:2,0196[A  ]| Suppose we on$4$ things traditive divide,
093:2,0197[A  ]| And both appeal to$4$ Scripture to$9$ decide;
093:2,0198[A  ]| By$4$ various texts we both uphold our claim,
093:2,0199[A  ]| Nay, often ground our titles on$4$ the same:
093:2,0200[A  ]| After long labour lost, and time's expense,
093:2,0201[A  ]| Both grant the words, and quarrel for$4$ the sense.
093:2,0202[A  ]| Thus all disputes forever must depend;
093:2,0203[A  ]| For$3$ no$2$ dumb rule can controversies end.
093:2,0204[A  ]| Thus when you said tradition must be tried
093:2,0205[A  ]| By$4$ Sacred Writ, whose sense yourselves decide,
093:2,0206[A  ]| You said no$2$ more, but that$3$ yourselves must be
093:2,0207[A  ]| The judges of the Scripture's sense, not we.
093:2,0208[A  ]| Against our church tradition you declare
093:2,0209[A  ]| And yet your Clerks would sit in$4$ Moyses chair:
093:2,0210[A  ]| At least it is proved against your argument,
093:2,0211[A  ]| The rule is far from plain, where all dissent.
093:2,0212[B  ]| If not by$4$ Scriptures how can we be sure
093:2,0213['  ]| (Replied the Panther) 
093:2,0213[B  ]| what tradition is pure?
093:2,0214[B  ]| For$3$ you palm upon$4$ us new for$4$ old,
093:2,0215[B  ]| All, as they say, that$6#1$ glitters is not gold.
093:2,0216[A  ]| How but by$4$ following her, 
093:2,0216['  ]| replied the Dame,
093:2,0217[A  ]| To$4$ whom derived from sire to$4$ son they came;
093:2,0218[A  ]| Where every age does on$4$ another move,
093:2,0219[A  ]| And trusts no$2$ farther than the next above;
093:2,0220[A  ]| Where all the rounds like$4$ Jacob's ladder rise,
093:2,0221[A  ]| The lowest hid in$4$ earth, the topmost in$4$ the skies.
093:2,0222['  ]| Sternly the savage did her answer mark,
093:2,0223['  ]| Her glowing eye-balls glittering in$4$ the dark,
093:2,0224['  ]| And said but this, 
093:2,0224[B  ]| since lucre was your trade,
093:2,0225[B  ]| Succeeding times such dreadful gaps have made
093:2,0226[B  ]| It is dangerous climbing: to$4$ your sons and you
093:2,0227[B  ]| I leave the ladder, and its omen too.
093:2,0228[A  ]| <(Hind.)> The Panther's breath was ever famed for$4$ sweet,
093:2,0229[A  ]| But from the Wolf such wishes oft I meet:
093:2,0230[A  ]| You learned this language from the blatant beast,
093:2,0231[A  ]| Or rather did not speak, but were possessed.
093:2,0232[A  ]| As for$4$ your answer it is but barely urged;
093:2,0233[A  ]| You must evince tradition to$9$ be forged;
093:2,0234[A  ]| Produce  plain proofs; unblemished authors use
093:2,0235[A  ]| As ancient as those ages they accuse;
093:2,0236[A  ]| Till when it is not sufficient to$9$ defame:
093:2,0237[A  ]| An old possession stands, till Elder quits the claim.
093:2,0238[A  ]| Then for$4$ our interest which$6#1$ is named alone
093:2,0239[A  ]| To$9$ load with envy, we retort your own.
093:2,0240[A  ]| For$3$ when traditions in$4$ your faces fly,
093:2,0241[A  ]| Resolving not to$9$ yield, you must descry:
093:2,0242[A  ]| As when the cause goes hard, the guilty man
093:2,0243[A  ]| Excepts, and thins his jury all he can;
093:2,0244[A  ]| So$3$ when you stand of other aid bereft,
093:2,0245[A  ]| You to$4$ the twelve Apostles would be left.
093:2,0246[A  ]| Your friend the Wolf did with more craft provide
093:2,0247[A  ]| To$9$ set those toys traditions quite aside:
093:2,0248[A  ]| And Fathers too, unless when reason spent
093:2,0249[A  ]| He cites them but sometimes for$4$ ornament.
093:2,0250[A  ]| But, Madam Panther, you, though more sincere,
093:2,0251[A  ]| Are not wise as your Adulterer:
093:2,0252[A  ]| The private spirit is a better blind
093:2,0253[A  ]| Than all the dodging tricks your authors find.
093:2,0254[A  ]| For$3$ they, who$6#1$ left the Scripture to$4$ the crowd,
093:2,0255[A  ]| Each for$4$ his own peculiar judge allowed;
093:2,0256[A  ]| The way to$9$ please them was to$9$ make them proud.
093:2,0257[A  ]| Thus, with full sails, they ran upon$4$ the shelf;
093:2,0258[A  ]| Who$6#2$ could suspect a cozenage from himself?
093:2,0259[A  ]| On$4$ his own reason safer it is to$9$ stand,
093:2,0260[A  ]| Than be deceived and damned at second hand.
093:2,0261[A  ]| But you who$6#1$ Fathers and traditions take,
093:2,0262[A  ]| And garble some, and some you quite forsake,
093:2,0263[A  ]| Pretending church authority to$9$ fix,
093:2,0264[A  ]| And yet some grains of private spirit mix,
093:2,0265[A  ]| Are like$4$ a Mule made up$5$ of differing seed,
093:2,0266[A  ]| And that$6#2$ is the reason why you never breed;
093:2,0267[A  ]| At least not propagate your kind abroad,
093:2,0268[A  ]| For$3$ home-dissenters are by$4$ statutes awed.
093:2,0269[A  ]| And yet they grow upon$4$ you every day,
093:2,0270[A  ]| While you (to$9$ speak the best) are at a stay,
093:2,0271[A  ]| For$3$ sects that$6#1$ are extremes, abhor a middle way.
093:2,0272[A  ]| Like$4$ tricks of state, to$9$ stop a raging flood,
093:2,0273[A  ]| Or mollify a mad-brained Senate's mood:
093:2,0274[A  ]| Of all expedients never one was good.
093:2,0275[A  ]| Well may they argue, (nor can you deny)
093:2,0276[A  ]| If we must fix on$4$ church authority,
093:2,0277[A  ]| Best on$4$ the best, the fountain, not the flood,
093:2,0278[A  ]| That$6#2$ must be better still, if this be good.
093:2,0279[A  ]| Shall she command, who$6#1$ has herself rebelled?
093:2,0280[A  ]| Is Antichrist by$4$ Antichrist exepelled?
093:2,0281[A  ]| Did we a lawful tyranny displace,
093:2,0282[A  ]| To$9$ set aloft a bastard of the race?
093:2,0283[A  ]| Why all these wars to$9$ win the Book, if we
093:2,0284[A  ]| Must not interpret for$4$ ourselves, but she?
093:2,0285[A  ]| Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
093:2,0286[A  ]| For$4$ purging fires traditions must not fight;
093:2,0287[A  ]| But they must prove Episcopacy is right:
093:2,0288[A  ]| Thus those led horses are from service freed;
093:2,0289[A  ]| You never mount them but in$4$ time of need.
093:2,0290[A  ]| Like$4$ mercenaries hired for$4$ home defence,
093:2,0291[A  ]| They will$1$ not serve against their native Prince.
093:2,0292[A  ]| Against domestic foes of Hierarchy
093:2,0293[A  ]| These are drawn forth, to$9$ make fanatics fly,
093:2,0294[A  ]| But, when they see their country-men at hand,
093:2,0295[A  ]| Marching against them under church-command,
093:2,0296[A  ]| Straight they forsake their colours, and disband.
093:2,0297['  ]| Thus she, nor could the Panther well enlarge
093:2,0298['  ]| With weak defence against so$5#1$ strong a charge:
093:2,0299['  ]| But said, 
093:2,0299[B  ]| for$4$ what did Christ his Word provide,
093:2,0300[B  ]| If still his church must want a living guide?
093:2,0301[B  ]| And if all saving doctrines are not there,
093:2,0302[B  ]| Or sacred Pen-men could not make them clear,
093:2,0303[B  ]| From after ages we should hope in$4$ vain
093:2,0304[B  ]| For$4$ truths, which$6#1$ men inspired, could not explain.
093:2,0305[A  ]| Before the Word was written, 
093:2,0305['  ]| said the Hind:
093:2,0306[A  ]| Our Saviour preached his Faith to$4$ human kind,
093:2,0307[A  ]| From his Apostles the first age received
093:2,0308[A  ]| Eternal truth, and what they taught, believed.
093:2,0309[A  ]| Thus by$4$ tradition faith was planted first,
093:2,0310[A  ]| Succeeding flocks succeeding Pastors nursed.
093:2,0311[A  ]| This was the way our wise Redeemer chose,
093:2,0312[A  ]| (Who$6#1$ sure could all things for$4$ the best dispose,)
093:2,0313[A  ]| To$9$ fence his fold from their encroaching foes.
093:2,0314[A  ]| He could have writ himself, but well foresaw
093:2,0315[A  ]| The event would be like$4$ that$6#2$ of Moyses law;
093:2,0316[A  ]| Some difference would arise, some doubts remain,
093:2,0317[A  ]| Like$4$ those, which$6#1$ yet the jarring Jews maintain.
093:2,0318[A  ]| No$2$ written laws can be so$5#1$ plain, so$5#1$ pure,
093:2,0319[A  ]| But wit may gloss, and malice may obscure,
093:2,0320[A  ]| Not those indited by$4$ his first command,
093:2,0321[A  ]| A Prophet graved the text, an Angel held his hand.
093:2,0322[A  ]| Thus faith was before the written word appeared,
093:2,0323[A  ]| And men believed, not what they read, but heard.
093:2,0324[A  ]| But since the Apostles could not be confined,
093:2,0325[A  ]| To$4$ these, or those, but severally designed
093:2,0326[A  ]| Their large commission round the world to$9$ blow;
093:2,0327[A  ]| To$9$ spread their faith they spread their labours too.
093:2,0328[A  ]| Yet still their absent flock their pains did share,
093:2,0329[A  ]| They hearkened still, for$3$ love produces care.
093:2,0330[A  ]| And as mistakes arose, or discords fell,
093:2,0331[A  ]| Or bold seducers taught them to$9$ rebel,
093:2,0332[A  ]| As charity grew cold, or faction hot,
093:2,0333[A  ]| Or long neglect, their lessons had forgot,
093:2,0334[A  ]| For$4$ all their wants they wisely did provide,
093:2,0335[A  ]| And preaching by$4$ Epistles was supplied:
093:2,0336[A  ]| So$3$ great Physicians cannot all attend,
093:2,0337[A  ]| But some they visit, and to$4$ some they send.
093:2,0338[A  ]| Yet all those letters were not writ to$4$ all;
093:2,0339[A  ]| Nor first intended, but occasional,
093:2,0340[A  ]| Their absent sermons; nor if they contain
093:2,0341[A  ]| All needful doctrines, are those doctrines plain.
093:2,0342[A  ]| Clearness by$4$ frequent preaching must be wrought,
093:2,0343[A  ]| They writ but seldom, but they daily taught.
093:2,0344[A  ]| And what one Saint has said of holy Paul,
093:2,0345[A  ]| He darkly writ, is true applied to$4$ all.
093:2,0346[A  ]| For$4$ this obscurity could heaven provide
093:2,0347[A  ]| More prudently than by$4$ a living guide,
093:2,0348[A  ]| As doubts arose, the difference to$9$ decide?
093:2,0349[A  ]| A guide was therefore needful, therefore made,
093:2,0350[A  ]| And, if appointed, sure to$9$ be obeyed.
093:2,0351[A  ]| Thus, with due reverence, to$4$ the Apostles' writ,
093:2,0352[A  ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ my sons are taught, to$4$ which$6#1$, submit;
093:2,0353[A  ]| I think, those truths their sacred works contain,
093:2,0354[A  ]| The church alone can certainly explain,
093:2,0355[A  ]| That$3$ following ages, leaning on$4$ the past,
093:2,0356[A  ]| May rest upon$4$ the Primitive at last.
093:2,0357[A  ]| Nor would I thence the word no$2$ rule infer,
093:2,0358[A  ]| But none without the church interpreter.
093:2,0359[A  ]| Because, as I have urged before, it is mute,
093:2,0360[A  ]| And is itself the subject of dispute.
093:2,0361[A  ]| But what the Apostles their successors taught,
093:2,0362[A  ]| They to$4$ the next, from them to$4$ us is brought,
093:2,0363[A  ]| The undoubted sense which$6#1$ is in$4$ scripture sought.
093:2,0364[A  ]| From hence the church is armed, when errors rise,
093:2,0365[A  ]| To$9$ stop their entrance, and prevent surprise;
093:2,0366[A  ]| And safe entrenched within, her foes without defies.
093:2,0367[A  ]| By$4$ these all festering sores her councils heal,
093:2,0368[A  ]| Which$6#1$ time or has disclosed, or shall reveal,
093:2,0369[A  ]| For$3$ discord cannot end without a last appeal.
093:2,0370[A  ]| Nor can a council national decide
093:2,0371[A  ]| But with subordination to$4$ her Guide:
093:2,0372[A  ]| (I wish the cause were on$4$ that$6#2$ issue tried)
093:2,0373[A  ]| Much less the scripture; for$3$ suppose debate
093:2,0374[A  ]| Between pretenders to$4$ a fair estate,
093:2,0375[A  ]| Bequeathed by$4$ some Legator's last intent;
093:2,0376[A  ]| (Such is our dying Saviour's Testament:)
093:2,0377[A  ]| The will$0$ is proved, is opened, and is read;
093:2,0378[A  ]| The doubtful heirs their differing titles plead:
093:2,0379[A  ]| All vouch the words their interest to$9$ maintain,
093:2,0380[A  ]| And each pretends by$4$ those his cause is plain.
093:2,0381[A  ]| Shall then the testament award the right?
093:2,0382[A  ]| No$7$, that$6#2$ is the Hungary for$4$ which$6#1$ they fight;
093:2,0383[A  ]| The field of battle, subject of debate,
093:2,0384[A  ]| The thing contended for$5$, the fair estate.
093:2,0385[A  ]| The sense is intricate, it is only clear
093:2,0386[A  ]| What vowels and what consonants are there.
093:2,0387[A  ]| Therefore it is plain, its meaning must be tried
093:2,0388[A  ]| Before some judge appointed to$9$ decide.
093:2,0389[B  ]| Suppose, 
093:2,0389['  ]| (the fair Apostate said,) 
093:2,0389[B  ]| I grant,
093:2,0390[B  ]| The faithful flock some living guide should want,
093:2,0391[B  ]| Your arguments an endless chase pursue:
093:2,0392[B  ]| Produce this vaunted Leader to$4$ our view,
093:2,0393[B  ]| This mighty Moyses of the chosen crew.
093:2,0394['  ]| The Dame, who$6#1$ saw her fainting foe retired,
093:2,0395['  ]| With force renewed, to$4$ victory aspired;
093:2,0396['  ]| (And looking upward to$4$ her kindred sky,
093:2,0397['  ]| As once our Saviour owned his Deity,
093:2,0398['  ]| Pronounced his words ~~ 
093:2,0398[A  ]| she whom ye seek am I.)
093:2,0399['  ]| Nor less amazed this voice the Panther heard,
093:2,0400['  ]| Than were those Jews to$9$ hear a god declared.
093:2,0401['  ]| Then thus the matron modestly renewed,
093:2,0402[A  ]| Let all your prophets and their sects be viewed,
093:2,0403[A  ]| And see to$4$ which$6#1$ of them yourselves think fit
093:2,0404[A  ]| The conduct of your conscience to $9$submit:
093:2,0405[A  ]| Each Proselyte would vote his Doctor best,
093:2,0406[A  ]| With absolute exclusion to$4$ the rest:
093:2,0407[A  ]| Thus would your Polish Diet disagree,
093:2,0408[A  ]| And end as it began in$4$ Anarchy:
093:2,0409[A  ]| Yourself the fairest for$4$ election stand,
093:2,0410[A  ]| Because you seem crown-general of the land,
093:2,0411[A  ]| But soon against your superstitious lawn
093:2,0412[A  ]| Some Presbyterian Sabre would be drawn:
093:2,0413[A  ]| In$4$ your established laws of sovereignty
093:2,0414[A  ]| The rest some fundamental flaw would see,
093:2,0415[A  ]| And call Rebellion gospel-liberty.
093:2,0416[A  ]| To$4$ church-decrees your articles require
093:2,0417[A  ]| Submission modified, if not entire;
093:2,0418[A  ]| Homage denied, to$4$ censures you proceed;
093:2,0419[A  ]| But when Curtana will$1$ not do the deed,
093:2,0420[A  ]| You lay that$6#2$ pointless clergy-weapon by$5$,
093:2,0421[A  ]| And to$4$ the laws, your sword of justice, fly.
093:2,0422[A  ]| Now this your sects the more unkindly take
093:2,0423[A  ]| (Those prying varlets hit the blots you make)
093:2,0424[A  ]| Because some ancient friends of your declare,
093:2,0425[A  ]| Your only rule of faith the Scripturs are,
093:2,0426[A  ]| Interpreted by$4$ men of judgement sound,
093:2,0427[A  ]| Which$6#1$ every sect will$1$ for$4$ themselves expound:
093:2,0428[A  ]| Nor think less reverence to$4$ their doctors due
093:2,0429[A  ]| For$4$ sound interpretation, than to$4$ you.
093:2,0430[A  ]| If then, by$4$ able heads, are understood
093:2,0431[A  ]| Your brother prophets, who$6#1$ reformed abroad,
093:2,0432[A  ]| Those able heads expound a wiser way,
093:2,0433[A  ]| That$3$ their own sheep their shepherd should obey.
093:2,0434[A  ]| But if you mean yourselves are only sound,
093:2,0435[A  ]| That$3$ doctrine turns the reformation round,
093:2,0436[A  ]| And all the rest are false reformers found.
093:2,0437[A  ]| Because in$4$ sundry points you stand alone,
093:2,0438[A  ]| Not in$4$ communion joined with anyone;
093:2,0439[A  ]| And therefore must be all the church, or none.
093:2,0440[A  ]| Then, till you have agreed whose judge is best,
093:2,0441[A  ]| Against this forced submission they protest:
093:2,0442[A  ]| While sound and sound a different sense explains
093:2,0443[A  ]| Both play at hard-head till they break their brains:
093:2,0444[A  ]| And from their chairs each other's force defy,
093:2,0445[A  ]| While unregarded thunders vainly fly.
093:2,0446[A  ]| I pass the rest, because your church alone
093:2,0447[A  ]| Of all usurpers best could fill the throne.
093:2,0448[A  ]| But neither you, nor any sect beside
093:2,0449[A  ]| For$4$ this high office can be qualified,
093:2,0450[A  ]| With necessary gifts required in$4$ such a guide.
093:2,0451[A  ]| For$3$ that$6#2$ which$6#1$ must direct the whole, must be
093:2,0452[A  ]| Bound in$4$ one bond of faith and unity:
093:2,0453[A  ]| But all your several churches disagree.
093:2,0454[A  ]| The consubstantiating church and Priest
093:2,0455[A  ]| Refuse communion to$4$ the Calvinist;
093:2,0456[A  ]| The French reformed, from preaching you restrain,
093:2,0457[A  ]| Because you judge their ordination vain;
093:2,0458[A  ]| And so$5#2$ they judge of yours, but Donors must ordain.
093:2,0459[A  ]| In$4$ short, in$4$ doctrine, or in$4$ discipline
093:2,0460[A  ]| Not one reformed, can with another join:
093:2,0461[A  ]| But all from each, as from damnation fly;
093:2,0462[A  ]| No$2$ union, they pretend, but in$4$ Non-Popery.
093:2,0463[A  ]| Nor should their members in$4$ a synod meet;
093:2,0464[A  ]| Could any church presume to$9$ mount the seat
093:2,0465[A  ]| Above the rest, their discords to$9$ decide;
093:2,0466[A  ]| None would obey, but each would be the guide:
093:2,0467[A  ]| And face to$4$ face dissensions would increase;
093:2,0468[A  ]| For$3$ only distance now preserves the peace.
093:2,0469[A  ]| All in$4$ their turns accusers, and accused:
093:2,0470[A  ]| Babel was never half so$5#1$ much confused.
093:2,0471[A  ]| What one can plead, the rest can plead as well;
093:2,0472[A  ]| For$3$ amongst equals lies no$2$ last appeal,
093:2,0473[A  ]| And all confess themselves are fallible.
093:2,0474[A  ]| Now since you grant some necessary guide,
093:2,0475[A  ]| All who$6#1$ can err are justly laid aside:
093:2,0476[A  ]| Because a trust so$5#1$ sacred to$9$ confer
093:2,0477[A  ]| Shows want of such a sure interpreter:
093:2,0478[A  ]| And how can he be needful who$6#1$ can err?
093:2,0479[A  ]| Then, granting that$6#2$ unerring guide we want,
093:2,0480[A  ]| That$3$ such there is you stand obliged to$9$ grant:
093:2,0481[A  ]| Our Saviour else were wanting to$9$ supply
093:2,0482[A  ]| Our needs, and obviate that$6#2$ necessity.
093:2,0483[A  ]| It then remains that$3$ church can only be
093:2,0484[A  ]| The guide, which$6#1$ owns unfailing certainty;
093:2,0485[A  ]| Or else you slip your hold, and change your side,
093:2,0486[A  ]| Relapsing from a necessary guide.
093:2,0487[A  ]| But this annexed condition of the crown,
093:2,0488[A  ]| Immunity from errors, you disown,
093:2,0489[A  ]| Here then you shrink, and lay your weak pretensions down.
093:2,0490[A  ]| For$4$ petty royalties you raise debate;
093:2,0491[A  ]| But this unfailing universal state
093:2,0492[A  ]| You shun; nor dare succeed to$4$ such a glorious weight;
093:2,0493[A  ]| And for$4$ that$6#2$ cause those promises detest
093:2,0494[A  ]| With which$6#1$ our Saviour did his Church invest:
093:2,0495[A  ]| But strive to$9$ evade, and fear to$9$ find them true,
093:2,0496[A  ]| As conscious they were never meant to$4$ you:
093:2,0497[A  ]| All which$6#1$ the mother church asserts her own,
093:2,0498[A  ]| And with unrivalled claim ascends the throne.
093:2,0499[A  ]| So$3$ when of old the Almighty father state
093:2,0500[A  ]| In$4$ Council, to$9$ redeem our ruined state,
093:2,0501[A  ]| Millions of millions at a distance round,
093:2,0502[A  ]| Silent the sacred Consistory crowned,
093:2,0503[A  ]| To$9$ hear what mercy mixed with justice could propound;
093:2,0504[A  ]| All prompt with eager pity, to$9$ fulfill
093:2,0505[A  ]| The full extent of their Creator's will$0$:
093:2,0506[A  ]| But when the stern conditons were declared,
093:2,0507[A  ]| A mournful whisper through the host was heard,
093:2,0508[A  ]| And the whole hierarchy with heads hung down
093:2,0509[A  ]| Submissively declined the pondrous proffered crown.
093:2,0510[A  ]| Then, not till then the eternal Son from high
093:2,0511[A  ]| Rose in$4$ the strength of all the Deity;
093:2,0512[A  ]| Stood forth to$9$ accept the terms, and underwent
093:2,0513[A  ]| A weight which$6#1$ all the frame of heaven had bent,
093:2,0514[A  ]| Nor he Himself could bear, but as omnipotent.
093:2,0515[A  ]| Now, to$9$ remove the least remaining doubt,
093:2,0516[A  ]| That$3$ even the blear-eyed sects may find her out,
093:2,0517[A  ]| Behold what heavenly rays adorn her brows,
093:2,0518[A  ]| What from his Wardrobe her beloved allows
093:2,0519[A  ]| To$9$ deck the wedding-day of his unspotted spouse.
093:2,0520[A  ]| Behold what marks of majesty she brings;
093:2,0521[A  ]| Richer than ancient heirs of Eastern kings:
093:2,0522[A  ]| Her right hand holds the sceptre and the keys,
093:2,0523[A  ]| To$9$ show whom she commands, and who$6#1$ obeys:
093:2,0524[A  ]| With these to$9$ bind, or set the sinner free,
093:2,0525[A  ]| With that$6#2$ to$9$ assert spiritual Royalty.
093:2,0526[A  ]| One in$4$ herself not rent by$4$ schism, but sound,
093:2,0527[A  ]| Entire, one solid shining Diamond,
093:2,0528[A  ]| Not sparkles shattered into sects like$4$ you,
093:2,0529[A  ]| One is the church, and must be to$9$ be true:
093:2,0530[A  ]| One central principle of unity,
093:2,0531[A  ]| As undivided, so$3$ from errors free,
093:2,0532[A  ]| As one in$4$ faith, so$3$ one in$4$ sanctity.
093:2,0533[A  ]| Thus she, and none but she, the insulting rage
093:2,0534[A  ]| Of Heretics opposed from age to$4$ age:
093:2,0535[A  ]| Still when the Giant-brood invades her throne
093:2,0536[A  ]| She stoops from heaven, and meets them half way down,
093:2,0537[A  ]| And with paternal thunder vindicates her crown.
093:2,0538[A  ]| But like$4$ AEgyptian Sorcerers you stand,
093:2,0539[A  ]| And vainly lift aloft your magic wand,
093:2,0540[A  ]| To$9$ sweep away the swarms of vermin from the land:
093:2,0541[A  ]| You could like$4$ them, with like$2$ infernal force
093:2,0542[A  ]| Produce the plague, but not arrest the course.
093:2,0543[A  ]| But when the boils and botches, with disgrace
093:2,0544[A  ]| And public scandal sat upon$4$ the face,
093:2,0545[A  ]| Themselves attacked, the Magi strove no$2$ more,
093:2,0546[A  ]| They saw God's finger, and their fate deplore;
093:2,0547[A  ]| Themselves they could not cure of the dishonest sore.
093:2,0548[A  ]| Thus one, thus pure, behold her largely spread
093:2,0549[A  ]| Like$4$ the fair ocean from her mother bed;
093:2,0550[A  ]| From East to$4$ West triumphantly she rides,
093:2,0551[A  ]| All shores are watered by$4$ her wealthy Tides:
093:2,0552[A  ]| The Gospel-sound diffused from Pole to$4$ Pole,
093:2,0553[A  ]| Where winds can carry, and where waves can roll;
093:2,0554[A  ]| The self same doctrine of the Sacred page
093:2,0555[A  ]| Conveyed to$4$ every clime in$4$ every age.
093:2,0556[A  ]| Here let my sorrow give my satire place,
093:2,0557[A  ]| To$9$ raise new blushes on$4$ my British race;
093:2,0558[A  ]| Our sailing ships like$4$ common shores we use,
093:2,0559[A  ]| And through our distant colonies diffuse
093:2,0560[A  ]| The draughts of Dungeons, and the stench of stews;
093:2,0561[A  ]| Whom, when their home-bred honesty is lost,
093:2,0562[A  ]| We disembogue on$4$ some far Indian coast:
093:2,0563[A  ]| Thieves, Panders, Palliards, sins of every sort,
093:2,0564[A  ]| Those are the manufactures we export;
093:2,0565[A  ]| And these the Missionaries our zeal has made:
093:2,0566[A  ]| For$3$, with my country's pardon be it said,
093:2,0567[A  ]| Religion is the least of all our trade.
093:2,0568[A  ]| Yet some improve their traffic more than we,
093:2,0569[A  ]| For$3$ they on$4$ gain, their only God, rely:
093:2,0570[A  ]| And set a public price on$4$ piety.
093:2,0571[A  ]| Industrious of the needle and the chart
093:2,0572[A  ]| They run full sail to$4$ their Japponian Mart:
093:2,0573[A  ]| Prevention fear, and prodigal of fame
093:2,0574[A  ]| Sell all of Christian to$4$ the very name;
093:2,0575[A  ]| Nor leave enough of that$6#2$, to$9$ hide their naked shame.
093:2,0576[A  ]| Thus, of three marks which$6#1$ in$4$ the Creed we view,
093:2,0577[A  ]| Not one of all can be applied to$4$ you:
093:2,0578[A  ]| Much less the fourth; in$4$ vain alas you sek
093:2,0579[A  ]| The ambitious title of Apostolic:
093:2,0580[A  ]| God-like descent! it is well your blood can be
093:2,0581[A  ]| Proved noble, in$4$ the third or fourth degree:
093:2,0582[A  ]| For$3$ all of ancient that$6#1$ you had before
093:2,0583[A  ]| (I mean what is not borrowed from our store)
093:2,0584[A  ]| Was Error fulminated over and over;
093:2,0585[A  ]| Old Heresies condemned in$4$ ages past,
093:2,0586[A  ]| By$4$ care and time recovered from the blast.
093:2,0587[A  ]| It is said with ease, but never can be proved,
093:2,0588[A  ]| The church her old foundations has removed,
093:2,0589[A  ]| And built new doctrines on$4$ unstable sands:
093:2,0590[A  ]| Judge that$6#2$ ye winds and rains; you proved her, yet she stands.
093:2,0591[A  ]| Those ancient doctrines charged on$4$ her for$4$ new,
093:2,0592[A  ]| Show when, and how, and from what hands they grew.
093:2,0593[A  ]| We claim no$2$ power when Heresies grow bold
093:2,0594[A  ]| To$9$ coin new faith, but still declare the old.
093:2,0595[A  ]| How else could that$6#2$ obscene disease be purged
093:2,0596[A  ]| When controverted texts are vainly urged?
093:2,0597[A  ]| To$9$ prove tradition new, there is somewhat more
093:2,0598[A  ]| Required, than saying, it was not used before.
093:2,0599[A  ]| Those monumental arms are never stirred
093:2,0600[A  ]| Till Schism or Heresy call down Goliah's sword.
093:2,0601[A  ]| Thus, what you call corruptions, are in$4$ truth,
093:2,0602[A  ]| The first plantations of the gospel's youth,
093:2,0603[A  ]| Old standard faith: but cast your eyes again
093:2,0604[A  ]| And view those errors which$6#1$ new sects maintain
093:2,0605[A  ]| Or which$6#1$ of old disturbed the churchss peaceful reign,
093:2,0606[A  ]| And we can point each period of the time,
093:2,0607[A  ]| When they began, and who$6#1$ begot the crime;
093:2,0608[A  ]| Can calculate how long the eclipse endured,
093:2,0609[A  ]| Who$6#1$ interposed, what digits were obscured:
093:2,0610[A  ]| Of all which$6#1$ are already passed away,
093:2,0611[A  ]| We know the rise, the progress and decay.
093:2,0612[A  ]| Despair at our foundations then to$9$ strike
093:2,0613[A  ]| Til you can prove your faith Apostolic;
093:2,0614[A  ]| A limpid stream drawn from the native source;
093:2,0615[A  ]| Succession lawful in$4$ a lineal course.
093:2,0616[A  ]| Prove any church opposed to$4$ this our head,
093:2,0617[A  ]| So$5#1$ one, so$5#1$ pure, so$5#1$ unconfinedly spread,
093:2,0618[A  ]| Under one chief of the spiritual state,
093:2,0619[A  ]| The members all combined, and all subordinate.
093:2,0620[A  ]| Show such a seamless coat, from schism so$5#1$ free,
093:2,0621[A  ]| In$4$ no$2$ communion joined with heresy:
093:2,0622[A  ]| If such a one you find, let truth prevail:
093:2,0623[A  ]| Till when your weights will$1$ in$4$ the balance fail:
093:2,0624[A  ]| A church unprincipled kicks up$5$ the scale.
093:2,0625[A  ]| But if you cannot think, (nor sure you can
093:2,0626[A  ]| Suppose in$4$ God what were unjust in$4$ man,)
093:2,0627[A  ]| That$3$ he, the fountain of eternal grace,
093:2,0628[A  ]| Should suffer falshood for$4$ so$5#1$ long a space
093:2,0629[A  ]| To$9$ banish truth, and to$9$ usurp her place:
093:2,0630[A  ]| That$3$ seven successive ages should be lost
093:2,0631[A  ]| And preach damnation at their proper cost;
093:2,0632[A  ]| That$3$ all your erring ancestors should die,
093:2,0633[A  ]| Drowned in$4$ the Abyss of deep Idolatry;
093:2,0634[A  ]| If piety forbid such thoughts to$9$ rise,
093:2,0635[A  ]| Awake and open your unwilling eyes:
093:2,0636[A  ]| God has left nothing for$4$ each age undone
093:2,0637[A  ]| From this to$4$ that$6#2$ wherein he sent his Son:
093:2,0638[A  ]| Then think but well of him, and half your work is done.
093:2,0639[A  ]| See how his church adorned with every grace
093:2,0640[A  ]| With open arms, a kind forgiving face,
093:2,0641[A  ]| Stands ready to$9$ prevent her long lost son's embrace.
093:2,0642[A  ]| Not more did Joseph over his brethren weep,
093:2,0643[A  ]| Nor less himself could from discovery keep,
093:2,0644[A  ]| When in$4$ the crowd of suppliants they were seen,
093:2,0645[A  ]| And in$4$ their crew his best beloved Benjamin.
093:2,0646[A  ]| That$6#2$ pious Joseph in$4$ the church behold,
093:2,0647[A  ]| To$9$ feed your famine, and refuse your gold;
093:2,0648[A  ]| The Joseph you exiled, the Joseph whom you sold.
093:2,0649['  ]| Thus, while with heavenly charity she spoke,
093:2,0650['  ]| A streaming blaze the silent shadows broke:
093:2,0651['  ]| Shot from the skies a cheerful azure light;
093:2,0652['  ]| The birds obscene to$4$ forests winged their flight,
093:2,0653['  ]| And gaping graves received the wandering guilty spright.
093:2,0654['  ]| Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky
093:2,0655['  ]| For$4$ James his late nocturnal victory;
093:2,0656['  ]| The pledge of his Almighty patron's love,
093:2,0657['  ]| The fire-works which$6#1$ his angel made above.
093:2,0658['  ]| I saw myself the lambent easy light
093:2,0659['  ]| Gild the brown horror and dispel the night;
093:2,0660['  ]| The messenger with speed the tidings bore;
093:2,0661['  ]| News which$6#1$ three labouring nations did restore,
093:2,0662['  ]| But heaven's own Nuncius was arrived before.
093:2,0663['  ]| By$4$ this, the Hind had reached her lonely cell;
093:2,0664['  ]| And vapours rose, and dews unwholesome fell.
093:2,0665['  ]| When she, by$4$ frequent observation wise,
093:2,0666['  ]| As one who$6#1$ long on$4$ heaven had fixed her eyes,
093:2,0667['  ]| Discerned a change of weather in$4$ the skies.
093:2,0668['  ]| The Western borders were with crimson spread,
093:2,0669['  ]| The moon descending looked all flaming red,
093:2,0670['  ]| She thought good manners bound her to$9$ invite
093:2,0671['  ]| The stranger Dame to$9$ be her guest that$6#2$ night.
093:2,0672[A  ]| It is true, coarse diet and a short repast,
093:2,0673['  ]| (She said) 
093:2,0673[A  ]| were weak inducements to$4$ the taste
093:2,0674[A  ]| Of one so$5#1$ nicely bred, and so$5#1$ unused to$9$ fast.
093:2,0675[A  ]| But what plain fare her cottage could afford,
093:2,0676[A  ]| A hearty welcome at a homely board
093:2,0677[A  ]| Was freely hers; and, to$9$ supply the rest,
093:2,0678[A  ]| An honest meaning and an open breast:
093:2,0679[A  ]| Last, with content of mind, the poor man's Wealth;
093:2,0680[A  ]| A grace-cup to$4$ their common Patron's health.
093:2,0681[A  ]| This she desired her to$9$ accept and stay,
093:2,0682[A  ]| For$4$ fear she might be wildered in$4$ her way,
093:2,0683[A  ]| Because she wanted an unerring guide;
093:2,0684[A  ]| And then the dew drops on$4$ her silken hide
093:2,0685[A  ]| Her tender constitution did declare,
093:2,0686[A  ]| Too Lady-like a long fatigue to$9$ bear,
093:2,0687[A  ]| And rough inclemencies of raw nocturnal air.
093:2,0688[A  ]| But most she feared that$3$ travelling so$5#1$ late,
093:2,0689[A  ]| Some evil minded beasts might lie in$4$ wait;
093:2,0690[A  ]| And without witness wreak their hidden hate.
093:2,0691['  ]| The Panther, though she lent a listening ear,
093:2,0692['  ]| Had more of Lion in$4$ her than to$9$ fear:
093:2,0693['  ]| Yet wisely weighing, since she had to$9$ deal
093:2,0694['  ]| With many foes, their numbers might prevail,
093:2,0695['  ]| Returned her all the thanks she could afford;
093:2,0696['  ]| And took her friendly hostess at her word,
093:2,0697['  ]| Who$6#1$ entering first her lowly roof, (a shed
093:2,0698['  ]| With hoary moss and winding Ivy spread,
093:2,0699['  ]| Honest enough to$9$ hide an humble Hermit's head,)
093:2,0700['  ]| Thus graciously bespoke her welcome guest:
093:2,0701[A  ]| So$3$ might these walls, with your fair presence blest
093:2,0702[A  ]| Become your dwelling-place of everlasting rest,
093:2,0703[A  ]| Not for$4$ a night, or quick revolving year,
093:2,0704[A  ]| Welcome an owner, not a sojourner.
093:2,0705[A  ]| This peaceful Seat my poverty secures,
093:2,0706[A  ]| War seldom enters but where wealth allures;
093:2,0707[A  ]| Nor yet despise it, for$3$ this poor abode
093:2,0708[A  ]| Has oft received, and yet receives a god;
093:2,0709[A  ]| A god victorious of the stygian race
093:2,0710[A  ]| Here laid his sacred limbs, and sanctified the place.
093:2,0711[A  ]| This mean retreat did mighty Pan contain;
093:2,0712[A  ]| Be emulous of him, and pomp disdain,
093:2,0713[A  ]| And dare not to$9$ debase your soul to$9$ gain.
093:2,0714['  ]| The silent stranger stood amazed to$9$ see
093:2,0715['  ]| Contempt of wealth, and wilful poverty:
093:2,0716['  ]| And, though ill habits are not soon controlled,
093:2,0717['  ]| A while suspended her desire of gold;
093:2,0718['  ]| But civilly drew in$5$ her sharpened paws,
093:2,0719['  ]| Not violating hospitable laws,
093:2,0720['  ]| And pacified her tail, and licked her frothy jaws.
093:2,0721['  ]| The Hind did first her country Cates provide;
093:2,0722['  ]| Then couched herself securely by$4$ her side.
093:3,0000['  ]| <The Hind and the Panther:>
093:3,0000['  ]| <The Third Part>
093:3,0001['  ]| MUCH malice mingled with a little wit
093:3,0002['  ]| Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ,
093:3,0003['  ]| Because the Muse has peopled Caledon
093:3,0004['  ]| With Panthers, Bears, and Wolves, and Beasts unknown,
093:3,0005['  ]| As if we were not stocked with monsters of our own.
093:3,0006['  ]| Let AEsop answer, who$6#1$ has set to$4$ view,
093:3,0007['  ]| Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew;
093:3,0008['  ]| And mother Hubbard in$4$ her homely dress
093:3,0009['  ]| As sharply blamed a British Lioness,
093:3,0010['  ]| That$6#2$ Queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep,
093:3,0011['  ]| Exposed obscenely naked and a-sleep.
093:3,0012['  ]| Led by$4$ those great examples, may not I
093:3,0013['  ]| The wanted organs of their words supply?
093:3,0014['  ]| If men transact like$4$ brutes it is equal then
093:3,0015['  ]| For$4$ brutes to$9$ claim the privilege of men.
093:3,0016['  ]| Others our Hind of folly will$1$ indict,
093:3,0017['  ]| To$9$ entertain a dangerous guest by$4$ night.
093:3,0018['  ]| Let those remember that$3$ she cannot die
093:3,0019['  ]| Till rolling time is lost in$4$ round eternity;
093:3,0020['  ]| Nor need she fear the Panther, though untamed,
093:3,0021['  ]| Because the Lion's peace was now proclamed,
093:3,0022['  ]| The wary savage would not give offence,
093:3,0023['  ]| To$9$ forfeit the protection of her Prince;
093:3,0024['  ]| But watched the time her vengeance to$9$ complete,
093:3,0025['  ]| When all her furry sons in$4$ frequent Senate met.
093:3,0026['  ]| Meanwhile she quenched her fury at the flood,
093:3,0027['  ]| And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood.
093:3,0028['  ]| Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant,
093:3,0029['  ]| Nor did their minds an equal banquet want.
093:3,0030['  ]| For$3$ now the Hind, whose noble nature strove
093:3,0031['  ]| To$9$ express her plain simplicity of love,
093:3,0032['  ]| Did all the honours of her house so$5#1$ well,
093:3,0033['  ]| No$2$ sharp debates disturbed the friendly meal.
093:3,0034['  ]| She turned the talk, avoiding that$6#2$ extreme,
093:3,0035['  ]| To$4$ common dangers past, a sadly pleasing theme;
093:3,0036['  ]| Remembering every storm which$6#1$ tossed the state,
093:3,0037['  ]| When both were objects of the public hate,
093:3,0038['  ]| And dropped a tear between for$4$ her own children's fate.
093:3,0039['  ]| Nor failed she then a full review to$9$ make
093:3,0040['  ]| Of what the Panther suffered for$4$ her sake:
093:3,0041['  ]| Her lost esteem, her truth, her loyal care,
093:3,0042['  ]| Her faith unshaken to$4$ an exiled Heir,
093:3,0043['  ]| Her strength to$9$ endure, her courage to$9$ defy;
093:3,0044['  ]| Her choice of honourable infamy.
093:3,0045['  ]| On$4$ these prolixly thankful, she enlarged,
093:3,0046['  ]| Then with acknowledgments herself she charged:
093:3,0047['  ]| For$3$ friendship of itself, an holy tie,
093:3,0048['  ]| Is made more sacred by$4$ adversity.
093:3,0049['  ]| Now should they part, malicious tongues would say,
093:3,0050['  ]| They met like$4$ chance companions on$4$ the way,
093:3,0051['  ]| Whom mutual fear of robbers had possessed;
093:3,0052['  ]| While danger lasted, kindness was professed;
093:3,0053['  ]| But that$6#2$ once over, the short-lived union ends:
093:3,0054['  ]| The road divides, and there divide the friends.
093:3,0055['  ]| The Panther nodded when her speech was done,
093:3,0056['  ]| And thanked her coldly in$4$ a hollow tone,
093:3,0057['  ]| But said her gratitude had gone too far
093:3,0058['  ]| For$4$ common offices of Christian care.
093:3,0059['  ]| If to$4$ the lawful Heir she had been true,
093:3,0060['  ]| She paid but Caesar what was Caesar's due.
093:3,0061[B  ]| I might, 
093:3,0061['  ]| she added, 
093:3,0061[B  ]| with like$2$ praise describe
093:3,0062[B  ]| Your suffering sons, and so$3$ return your bribe;
093:3,0063[B  ]| But incense from my hands is poorly prized,
093:3,0064[B  ]| For$3$ gifts are scorned where givers are despised.
093:3,0065[B  ]| I served a turn, and then was cast away;
093:3,0066[B  ]| You, like$4$ the gaudy fly, your wings display,
093:3,0067[B  ]| And sip the sweets, and bask in$4$ your Great Patron's day.
093:3,0068['  ]| This heard, the Matron was not slow to$9$ find
093:3,0069['  ]| What sort of malady had seized her mind;
093:3,0070['  ]| Disdain, with gnawing envy, fell despite,
093:3,0071['  ]| And cankered malice stood in$4$ open sight;
093:3,0072['  ]| Ambition, interest, pride without control,
093:3,0073['  ]| And jealousy, the jaundice of the soul;
093:3,0074['  ]| Revenge, the bloody minister of ill,
093:3,0075['  ]| With all the lean tormenters of the will$0$.
093:3,0076['  ]| It was easy now to$9$ guess from whence arose
093:3,0077['  ]| Her new made union with her ancient foes,
093:3,0078['  ]| Her forced civilities, her faint embrace,
093:3,0079['  ]| Affected kindness with an altered face:
093:3,0080['  ]| Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound,
093:3,0081['  ]| As hoping still the nobler parts were sound;
093:3,0082['  ]| But strove with Anodynes to$9$ assuage the smart,
093:3,0083['  ]| And mildly thus her medicine did impart.
093:3,0084[A  ]| Complaints of Lovers help to$9$ ease their pain,
093:3,0085[A  ]| It shows a Rest of kindness to$9$ complain,
093:3,0086[A  ]| A friendship loath to$9$ quit its former hold,
093:3,0087[A  ]| And conscious merit may be justly bold.
093:3,0088[A  ]| But much more just your jealousy would show,
093:3,0089[A  ]| If others' good were injury to$4$ you:
093:3,0090[A  ]| Witness ye heavens how I rejoice to$9$ see
093:3,0091[A  ]| Rewarded worth, and rising loyalty.
093:3,0092[A  ]| Your Warrior Offspring that$6#1$ upheld the crown,
093:3,0093[A  ]| The scarlet honours of your peaceful gown,
093:3,0094[A  ]| Are the most pleasing objects I can find,
093:3,0095[A  ]| Charms to$4$ my sight, and cordials to$4$ my mind:
093:3,0096[A  ]| When virtue spumes before a prosperous gale
093:3,0097[A  ]| My heaving wishes help to$9$ fill the sail,
093:3,0098[A  ]| And if my prayers for$4$ all the brave were heard,
093:3,0099[A  ]| Caesar should still have such, and such should still reward.
093:3,0100[A  ]| The laboured earth your pains have sowed and tilled:
093:3,0101[A  ]| It is just you reap the product of the field.
093:3,0102[A  ]| Yours be the harvest, it is the beggar's gain
093:3,0103[A  ]| To$9$ glean the fallings of the loaded wain.
093:3,0104[A  ]| Such scattered ears as are not worth your care,
093:3,0105[A  ]| Your charity for$4$ alms may safely spare,
093:3,0106[A  ]| And alms are but the vehicles of prayer.
093:3,0107[A  ]| My daily bread is literally implored,
093:3,0108[A  ]| I have no$2$ barns nor granaries to$9$ hoard;
093:3,0109[A  ]| If Caesar to$4$ his own his hand extends,
093:3,0110[A  ]| Say which$6#1$ of yours his charity offends:
093:3,0111[A  ]| You know he largely gives to$4$ more than are his friends.
093:3,0112[A  ]| Are you defrauded when he feeds the poor?
093:3,0113[A  ]| Our mite decreases nothing of your store;
093:3,0114[A  ]| I am but few, and by$4$ your fare you see
093:3,0115[A  ]| My crying sins are not of luxury.
093:3,0116[A  ]| Some juster motive sure your mind withdraws,
093:3,0117[A  ]| And makes you break our friendship's holy laws,
093:3,0118[A  ]| For$3$ barefaced envy is too base a cause.
093:3,0119[A  ]| Show more occasion for$4$ your discontent,
093:3,0120[A  ]| Your love, the Wolf, would help you to$9$ invent;
093:3,0121[A  ]| Some German quarrel, or, as times go now,
093:3,0122[A  ]| Some French, where force is uppermost, will$1$ do.
093:3,0123[A  ]| When at the fountain's head, as merit ought
093:3,0124[A  ]| To$9$ claim the place, you take a swilling draught,
093:3,0125[A  ]| How easy it is an envious eye to$9$ throw,
093:3,0126[A  ]| And tax the sheep for$4$ troubling streams below,
093:3,0127[A  ]| Or call her, (when no$2$ farther cause you find,)
093:3,0128[A  ]| An enemy professed of all your kind.
093:3,0129[A  ]| But then, perhaps, the wicked World would think,
093:3,0130[A  ]| The Wolf designed to$9$ eat as well as drink.
093:3,0131['  ]| This last allusion galled the Panther more,
093:3,0132['  ]| Because indeed it rubbed upon$4$ the sore.
093:3,0133['  ]| Yet seemed she not to$9$ wince, though shrewdly pained:
093:3,0134['  ]| But thus her Passive character maintained.
093:3,0135[B  ]| I never grudged, whatever my foes report,
093:3,0136[B  ]| Your flaunting fortune in$4$ the Lion's court.
093:3,0137[B  ]| You have your day, or you are much belied,
093:3,0138[B  ]| But I am always on$4$ the suffering side:
093:3,0139[B  ]| You know my doctrine, and I need not say
093:3,0140[B  ]| I will$1$ not, but I cannot disobey.
093:3,0141[B  ]| On$4$ this firm principle I ever stood:
093:3,0142[B  ]| He of my sons who$6#1$ fails to$9$ make it good,
093:3,0143[B  ]| By$4$ one rebellious act renounces to$4$ my blood.
093:3,0144['  ]| Ah, said the Hind, how many sons have you
093:3,0145[A  ]| Who$6#1$ call you mother, whom you never knew!
093:3,0146[A  ]| But most of them who$6#1$ what relation plead
093:3,0147[A  ]| Are such ungracious youths as wish you dead.
093:3,0148[A  ]| They gape at rich revenues which$6#1$ you hold,
093:3,0149[A  ]| And fain would nibble at your grandame gold;
093:3,0150[A  ]| Enquire into your years, and laugh to$9$ find
093:3,0151[A  ]| Your crazy temper shows you much declined.
093:3,0152[A  ]| Were you not dim, and doted, you might see
093:3,0153[A  ]| A pack of cheats that$6#1$ claim a pedigree,
093:3,0154[A  ]| No$2$ more of kin to$4$ you, than you to$4$ me.
093:3,0155[A  ]| Do you not know, that$3$ for$4$ a little coin,
093:3,0156[A  ]| Heralds can foist a name into the line?
093:3,0157[A  ]| They ask you blessing but for$4$ what you have,
093:3,0158[A  ]| But once possessed of what with care you save,
093:3,0159[A  ]| The wanton boys would piss upon$4$ your grave.
093:3,0160[A  ]| Your sons of Latitude that$6#1$ court your grace,
093:3,0161[A  ]| Though most resembling you in$4$ form and face,
093:3,0162[A  ]| Are far the worst of your pretended race.
093:3,0163[A  ]| And, but I blush your honesty to$9$ blot,
093:3,0164[A  ]| Pray god you prove them lawfuly begot:
093:3,0165[A  ]| For$3$, in$4$ some Popish libels I have read,
093:3,0166[A  ]| The Wolf has been too busy in$4$ your bed.
093:3,0167[A  ]| At least their hinder parts, the belly piece,
093:3,0168[A  ]| The paunch, and all that$6#1$ Scorpio claims are his.
093:3,0169[A  ]| Their malice too a sore suspicion brings;
093:3,0170[A  ]| For$3$ though they dare not bark, they snarl at kings:
093:3,0171[A  ]| Nor blame them for$4$ intruding in$4$ your line,
093:3,0172[A  ]| Fat Bishoprics are still of right divine.
093:3,0173[A  ]| Think you your new French Proselytes are come
093:3,0174[A  ]| To$9$ starve abroad, because they starved at home?
093:3,0175[A  ]| Your benefices twinkled from afar,
093:3,0176[A  ]| They found the new Messiah by$4$ the star:
093:3,0177[A  ]| Those Swisses fight on$4$ any side for$4$ pay,
093:3,0178[A  ]| And it is the living that$6#1$ conforms, not they.
093:3,0179[A  ]| Mark with what management their tribes divide,
093:3,0180[A  ]| Some stick to$4$ you, and some to$4$ the other side,
093:3,0181[A  ]| That$3$ many churches may for$4$ many mouths provide.
093:3,0182[A  ]| More vacant pulpits would more converts make,
093:3,0183[A  ]| All would have latitude enough to$9$ take;
093:3,0184[A  ]| The rest unbeneficed, your sects maintain
093:3,0185[A  ]| For$3$ ordinations without cures are vain,
093:3,0186[A  ]| And chamber practice is a silent gain.
093:3,0187[A  ]| Your sons of breadth at home, are much like$4$ these,
093:3,0188[A  ]| Their soft and yielding metals run with ease,
093:3,0189[A  ]| They melt, and take the figure of the mould:
093:3,0190[A  ]| But harden, and preserve it best in$4$ gold.
093:3,0191['  ]| Your Delphic Sword, the Panther then replied,
093:3,0192[B  ]| Is double edged, and cuts on$4$ either side.
093:3,0193[B  ]| Some sons of mine who$6#1$ bear upon$4$ their shield,
093:3,0194[B  ]| Three steeples Argent in$4$ a sable field,
093:3,0195[B  ]| Have sharply taxed your converts, who$6#1$ unfed
093:3,0196[B  ]| Have followed you for$4$ miracles of bread;
093:3,0197[B  ]| Such who$6#1$ themselves of no$2$ religion are,
093:3,0198[B  ]| Allured with gain, for$4$ any will$1$ declare.
093:3,0199[B  ]| Bare lies with bold assertions they can face,
093:3,0200[B  ]| But dint of argument is out of place.
093:3,0201[B  ]| The grim Logician puts them in$4$ a fright,
093:3,0202[B  ]| It is easier far to$9$ flourish than to$9$ fight.
093:3,0203[B  ]| Thus our eighth Henry's marriage they defame;
093:3,0204[B  ]| They say the schism of beds began the game,
093:3,0205[B  ]| Divorcing from the Church to$9$ wed the Dame:
093:3,0206[B  ]| Though largely proved, and by$4$ himself professed
093:3,0207[B  ]| That$3$ conscience, conscience would not let him rest,
093:3,0208[B  ]| I mean not till possessed of her he loved,
093:3,0209[B  ]| And old, uncharming Catherine was removed.
093:3,0210[B  ]| For$4$ sundry years before did he complain,
093:3,0211[B  ]| And told his ghostly Confessor his pain.
093:3,0212[B  ]| With the same impudence, without a ground,
093:3,0213[B  ]| They say, that$6#1$ look the reformation round,
093:3,0214[B  ]| No$2$ Treatise of Humility is found.
093:3,0215[B  ]| But if none were, the Gospel does not want,
093:3,0216[B  ]| Our Saviour preached it and I hope you grant,
093:3,0217[B  ]| The Sermon in$4$ the mount was Protestant.
093:3,0218[A  ]| No$2$ doubt, 
093:3,0218['  ]| replied the Hind, 
093:3,0218[A  ]| as sure as all
093:3,0219[A  ]| The writing of Saint Peter and Saint Paul:
093:3,0220[A  ]| On$4$ that$6#2$ decision let it stand or fall.
093:3,0221[A  ]| Now for$4$ my converts, who$6#1$ you say unfed
093:3,0222[A  ]| Have followed me for$4$ miracles of bread,
093:3,0223[A  ]| Judge not by$4$ hearsay, but observe at least,
093:3,0224[A  ]| If since their change, their loaves have been increased.
093:3,0225[A  ]| The Lion buys no$2$ Converts, if he did,
093:3,0226[A  ]| Beasts would be sold as fast as he could bid.
093:3,0227[A  ]| Tax those of interest who$6#1$ conform for$4$ gain,
093:3,0228[A  ]| Or stay the market of another reign.
093:3,0229[A  ]| Your broad-way sons would never be too nice
093:3,0230[A  ]| To$9$ close with Calvin, if he paid their price;
093:3,0231[A  ]| But raised three steeples higher, would change their note,
093:3,0232[A  ]| And quit the the Cassock for$4$ the Canting-coat.
093:3,0233[A  ]| Now, if you damn this censure, as too bold,
093:3,0234[A  ]| Judge by$4$ yourselves, and think not others sold.
093:3,0235[A  ]| Meantime my sons accused, by$4$ fame's report
093:3,0236[A  ]| Pay small attendance at the Lion's court,
093:3,0237[A  ]| Nor rise with early crowds, nor flatter late,
093:3,0238[A  ]| (For$3$ silently they beg who$6#1$ daily waits.)
093:3,0239[A  ]| Preferment is bestowed that$6#1$ comes unsought,
093:3,0240[A  ]| Attendance is a bribe, and then it is bought.
093:3,0241[A  ]| How they should speed, their fortune is untried,
093:3,0242[A  ]| For$3$ not to$9$ ask, is not to$9$ be denied.
093:3,0243[A  ]| For$4$ what they have, their God and King they bless,
093:3,0244[A  ]| And hope they should not murmur, had they less.
093:3,0245[A  ]| But, if reduced subsistence to$9$ implore,
093:3,0246[A  ]| In$4$ common prudence they would pass your door;
093:3,0247[A  ]| Unpitied Hudibrass, your Champion friend,
093:3,0248[A  ]| Has shown how far your charities extend.
093:3,0249[A  ]| This lasting verse shall on$4$ his tomb be read,
093:3,0250[A  ]| He shamed you living, and upbraids you dead.
093:3,0251[A  ]| With odious Atheist names you load your foes,
093:3,0252[A  ]| Your liberal Clergy why did I expose?
093:3,0253[A  ]| It never fails in$4$ charities like$4$ those.
093:3,0254[A  ]| In$4$ climes where true religion is professed,
093:3,0255[A  ]| That$6#2$ imputation were no$2$ laughing jest.
093:3,0256[A  ]| But Imprimatur, with a Chaplain's name,
093:3,0257[A  ]| Is here sufficient licence to$9$ defame.
093:3,0258[A  ]| What wonder is it that$3$ black detraction thrives?
093:3,0259[A  ]| The Homicide of names is less than lives;
093:3,0260[A  ]| And yet the perjured murderer survives.
093:3,0261['  ]| This said, she paused a little, and suppressed
093:3,0262['  ]| The boiling indignation of her breast;
093:3,0263['  ]| She knew the virtue of her blade, nor would
093:3,0264['  ]| Pollute her satire with ignoble blood:
093:3,0265['  ]| Her panting foes she saw before her lie,
093:3,0266['  ]| And back she drew the shining weapon dry:
093:3,0267['  ]| So$3$ when the generous Lion has in$4$ sight
093:3,0268['  ]| His equal match, he rouses for$4$ the fight;
093:3,0269['  ]| But when his foe lies prostrate on$4$ the plain,
093:3,0270['  ]| He sheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
093:3,0271['  ]| And, pleased with bloodless honours of the day,
093:3,0272['  ]| Walks over, and disdains the inglorious Prey.
093:3,0273['  ]| So$3$ JAMES, if great with less we may compare,
093:3,0274['  ]| Arrests his rolling thunderbolts in$4$ air;
093:3,0275['  ]| And grants ungrateful friends a lengthened space,
093:3,0276['  ]| To$9$ implore the remnants of long suffering grace.
093:3,0277['  ]| This breathing-time the Matron took; and then,
093:3,0278['  ]| Resumed the thread of her discourse again.
093:3,0279[A  ]| Be vengeance wholly left to$4$ powers divine,
093:3,0280[A  ]| And let heaven judge between your sons and mine:
093:3,0281[A  ]| If joys hereafter must be purchased here
093:3,0282[A  ]| With loss of all that$6#1$ mortals hold so$5#1$ dear,
093:3,0283[A  ]| Then welcome infamy and public shame,
093:3,0284[A  ]| And, last, a long farewell to$4$ worldly fame.
093:3,0285[A  ]| It is said with ease, but oh, how hardly tried
093:3,0286[A  ]| By$4$ haughty souls to$4$ human honour tied!
093:3,0287[A  ]| O sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride!
093:3,0288[A  ]| Down then thou rebel, never more to$9$ rise,
093:3,0289[A  ]| And what thou didst, and dost so$5#1$ dearly prize,
093:3,0290[A  ]| That$6#2$ fame, that$6#2$ darling fame, make that$6#2$ thy sacrifice.
093:3,0291[A  ]| It is nothing thou hast given, then add thy tears
093:3,0292[A  ]| For$4$ a long race of unrepenting years:
093:3,0293[A  ]| It is nothing yet; yet all thou hast to$9$ give,
093:3,0294[A  ]| Then add those maybe years thou hast to$9$ live.
093:3,0295[A  ]| Yet nothing still: then poor, and naked come,
093:3,0296[A  ]| Thy father will$1$ receive his unthrift home,
093:3,0297[A  ]| And thy blest Saviour's blood discharge the mighty sum.
093:3,0298[A  ]| Thus 
093:3,0298['  ]| (she pursued) 
093:3,0298[A  ]| I discipline a son
093:3,0299[A  ]| Whose unchecked fury to$4$ revenge would run:
093:3,0300[A  ]| He champs the bit, impatient of his loss,
093:3,0301[A  ]| And starts aside, and flounders at the cross.
093:3,0302[A  ]| Instruct him better, gracious God, to$9$ know,
093:3,0303[A  ]| As thine is vengeance, so$3$ forgiveness too.
093:3,0304[A  ]| That$3$ suffering from ill tongues he bears no$2$ more
093:3,0305[A  ]| Than what his Sovereign bears,and what his Saviour bore.
093:3,0306[A  ]| It now remains for$4$ you to$9$ school your child,
093:3,0307[A  ]| And ask why God's anointed he reviled;
093:3,0308[A  ]| A King and Princess dead! did Shimei worse?
093:3,0309[A  ]| The curser's punishment should fright the curse:
093:3,0310[A  ]| Your son was warned, and wisely gave it over,
093:3,0311[A  ]| But he who$6#1$ counselled him, has paid the score:
093:3,0312[A  ]| The heavy malice could no$2$ higher tend,
093:3,0313[A  ]| But woe to$4$ him on$4$ whom the wights descend:
093:3,0314[A  ]| So$3$ to$4$ permitted ills the Demon flies:
093:3,0315[A  ]| His rage is aimed at him who$6#1$ rules the skies;
093:3,0316[A  ]| Constrained to$9$ quit his cause, no$2$ succour found,
093:3,0317[A  ]| The foe discharges every Tyre around,
093:3,0318[A  ]| In$4$ clouds of smoke abandoning the fight,
093:3,0319[A  ]| But his own thundering peals proclaim his flight.
093:3,0320[A  ]| In$4$ Henry's change his charge as ill succeeds,
093:3,0321[A  ]| To$4$ that$6#2$ long story little answer needs,
093:3,0322[A  ]| Confront but Henry's words with Henry's deeds.
093:3,0323[A  ]| Were space allowed, with ease it might be proved,
093:3,0324[A  ]| What springs his blessed reformation moved.
093:3,0325[A  ]| The dire effects appeared in$4$ open sight,
093:3,0326[A  ]| Which$6#1$ from the cause, he calls a distant flight,
093:3,0327[A  ]| And yet no$2$ larger leap than from the sun the light.
093:3,0328[A  ]| Now last your sons a double Paean sound,
093:3,0329[A  ]| A Treatise of Humility is found.
093:3,0330[A  ]| It is found, but better it had never been sought
093:3,0331[A  ]| Than thus in$4$ Protestant procession brought.
093:3,0332[A  ]| The famed original through Spain is known,
093:3,0333[A  ]| Rodriguez' work, my celebrated son,
093:3,0334[A  ]| Which$6#1$ yours, by$4$ ill-translating made his own,
093:3,0335[A  ]| Concealed its author, and usurped the name,
093:3,0336[A  ]| The basest and ignoblest theft of fame.
093:3,0337[A  ]| My Altars kindled first that$6#2$ living coal,
093:3,0338[A  ]| Restore, or practice better what you stole:
093:3,0339[A  ]| That$3$ virtue could this humble verse inspire,
093:3,0340[A  ]| It is all the restitution I require.
093:3,0341['  ]| Glad was the Panther that$3$ the charge was closed,
093:3,0342['  ]| And none of all her favourite sons exposed.
093:3,0343['  ]| For$3$ laws of arms permit each injured man,
093:3,0344['  ]| To$9$ make himself a saver where he can.
093:3,0345['  ]| Perhaps the plundered merchant cannot tell
093:3,0346['  ]| The names of Pirates in$4$ whose hands he fell:
093:3,0347['  ]| But at the den of thieves he justly flies,
093:3,0348['  ]| And every Algerine is lawful prize.
093:3,0349['  ]| No$2$ private person in$4$ the foe's estate
093:3,0350['  ]| Can plead exemption from the public fate.
093:3,0351['  ]| Yet Christian laws allow not such redress;
093:3,0352['  ]| Then let the greater supersede the less.
093:3,0353['  ]| But let the Abettors of the Panther's crime
093:3,0354['  ]| Learn to$9$ make fairer wars another time.
093:3,0355['  ]| Some characters may sure be found to$9$ write
093:3,0356['  ]| Among her sons, for$3$ it is no$2$ common sight
093:3,0357['  ]| A spotted Dam, and all her offspring white.
093:3,0358['  ]| The Savage, though she saw her plea controlled,
093:3,0359['  ]| Yet would not wholly seem to$9$ quit her hold,
093:3,0360['  ]| But offered fairly to$9$ compound the strife;
093:3,0361['  ]| And judge conversion by$4$ the convert's life.
093:3,0362[B  ]| It is true, 
093:3,0362['  ]| she said, 
093:3,0362[B  ]| I think it somewhat strange
093:3,0363[B  ]| So$5#1$ few should follow profitable change:
093:3,0364[B  ]| For$3$ present joys are more to$4$ flesh and blood,
093:3,0365[B  ]| Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
093:3,0366[B  ]| It was well alluded by$4$ a son of mine,
093:3,0367[B  ]| (I hope to$9$ quote him is not to$9$ purloin)
093:3,0368[B  ]| Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to$4$ bliss,
093:3,0369[B  ]| The larger loadstone that$6#2$, the nearer this:
093:3,0370[B  ]| The weak attraction of the greater fails,
093:3,0371[B  ]| We nod a-while, but neighbourhood prevails:
093:3,0372[B  ]| But when the greater proves the nearer too,
093:3,0373[B  ]| I wonder more your converts come so$5#1$ slow.
093:3,0374[B  ]| Methinks in$4$ those who$6#1$ firm with me remain,
093:3,0375[B  ]| It shows a nobler principle than gain.
093:3,0376[A  ]| Your inference would be strong 
093:3,0376['  ]| (the Hind replied)
093:3,0377[A  ]| If yours were in$4$ effect the suffering side:
093:3,0378[A  ]| Your clergy sons their own in$4$ peace possess,
093:3,0379[A  ]| Nor are their prospects in$4$ reversion less.
093:3,0380[A  ]| My Proselytes are struck with awful dread,
093:3,0381[A  ]| Your bloody Comet-laws hang blazing over their head.
093:3,0382[A  ]| The respite they enjoy but only lent,
093:3,0383[A  ]| The best they have to$9$ hope, protracted punishment.
093:3,0384[A  ]| Be judge yourself, if interest may prevail,
093:3,0385[A  ]| Which$6#1$ motives, yours or mine, will$1$ turn the scale.
093:3,0386[A  ]| While pride and pomp allure, and plenteous ease,
093:3,0387[A  ]| That$6#2$ is, till man's predominant passions cease,
093:3,0388[A  ]| Admire no$2$ longer at my slow increase.
093:3,0389[A  ]| By$4$ education most have been misled,
093:3,0390[A  ]| So$5#2$ they believe, because they so$5#2$ were bred.
093:3,0391[A  ]| The Priest continues what the nurse began,
093:3,0392[A  ]| And thus the child imposes on$4$ the man.
093:3,0393[A  ]| The rest I named before, nor need repeat:
093:3,0394[A  ]| But interest is the most prevailing cheat,
093:3,0395[A  ]| The sly seducer both of age and youth;
093:3,0396[A  ]| They study that$6#2$, and think they study truth:
093:3,0397[A  ]| When interest fortifies the argument
093:3,0398[A  ]| Weak reason serves to$9$ gain the will's assent;
093:3,0399[A  ]| For$4$ souls already warped receive an easy bent.
093:3,0400[A  ]| Add long prescription of established laws,
093:3,0401[A  ]| And pique of honour to$9$ maintain a cause,
093:3,0402[A  ]| And shame of change, and fear of future ill,
093:3,0403[A  ]| And Zeal, the blind conductor of the will$0$,
093:3,0404[A  ]| And chief among the still mistaking crowd,
093:3,0405[A  ]| The fame of teachers obstinate and proud,
093:3,0406[A  ]| And more than all, the private Judge allowed.
093:3,0407[A  ]| Disdain of Fathers which$6#1$ the dance began,
093:3,0408[A  ]| And last, uncertain whose the narrower span,
093:3,0409[A  ]| The clown unread, and half-read gentleman.
093:3,0410['  ]| To$4$ this the Panther, with a scornful smile:
093:3,0411[B  ]| Yet still you travel with unwearied toil,
093:3,0412[B  ]| And range around the realms without control
093:3,0413[B  ]| Among my sons, for$4$ Proselytes to$9$ prole,
093:3,0414[B  ]| And here and there you snap some silly soul.
093:3,0415[B  ]| You hinted fears of future change in$4$ state,
093:3,0416[B  ]| Pray heaven you did not prophesy your fate;
093:3,0417[B  ]| Perhaps you think your time of triumph near,
093:3,0418[B  ]| But may mistake the season of the year;
093:3,0419[B  ]| The Swallow's fortune gives you cause to$9$ fear.
093:3,0420[A  ]| For$4$ charity 
093:3,0420['  ]| (replied the Matron) 
093:3,0420[A  ]| tell
093:3,0421[A  ]| What sad mischance those pretty birds befell.
093:3,0422[B  ]| Nay, no$2$ mischance, 
093:3,0422['  ]| (the savage Dame replied)
093:3,0423[B  ]| But want of wit in$4$ their unerring guide,
093:3,0424[B  ]| And eager haste, and gaudy hopes, and giddy pride.
093:3,0425[B  ]| Yet, wishing timely warning may prevail,
093:3,0426[B  ]| Make you the moral, and I will$1$ tell the tale.
093:3,0427[B  ]| The Swallow, privileged above the rest
093:3,0428[B  ]| Of all the birds, as man's familiar Guest,
093:3,0429[B  ]| Pursues the Sun in$4$ summer brisk and bold,
093:3,0430[B  ]| But wisely shuns the persecuting cold:
093:3,0431[B  ]| Is well to$4$ chancels and to$4$ chimneys known,
093:3,0432[B  ]| Though it is not thought she feeds on$4$ smoke alone.
093:3,0433[B  ]| From hence she has been held of heavenly line,
093:3,0434[B  ]| Endued with particles of soul divine.
093:3,0435[B  ]| This merry Chorister has long possessed
093:3,0436[B  ]| Her summer seat, and feathered well her nest:
093:3,0437[B  ]| Till frowning skies began to$9$ change their cheer
093:3,0438[B  ]| And time turned up$5$ the wrong side of the year;
093:3,0439[B  ]| The shedding trees began the ground to$9$ strow
093:3,0440[B  ]| With yellow leaves, and bitter blasts to$9$ blow.
093:3,0441[B  ]| Sad auguries of winter thence she drew,
093:3,0442[B  ]| Which$6#1$ by$4$ instinct, or Prophecy, she knew:
093:3,0443[B  ]| When prudence warned her to$9$ remove betimes
093:3,0444[B  ]| And seek a better heaven, and warmer climes.
093:3,0445[B  ]| Her sons were summoned on$4$ a steeple's height,
093:3,0446[B  ]| And, called in$4$ common council, vote a flight;
093:3,0447[B  ]| The day was named, the next that$6#1$ should be fair,
093:3,0448[B  ]| All to$4$ the general rendezvouz repair,
093:3,0449[B  ]| They try their fluttering wings and trust themselves in$4$ air.
093:3,0450[B  ]| But whether upward to$4$ the moon they go,
093:3,0451[B  ]| Or dream the winter out in$4$ caves below,
093:3,0452[B  ]| Or hawk at flies elsewhere, concerns not us to$9$ know.
093:3,0453[B  ]| Southwards, you may be sure, they bent their flight,
093:3,0454[B  ]| And harboured in$4$ a hollow rock at night:
093:3,0455[B  ]| Next morn they rose and set up$5$ every sail,
093:3,0456[B  ]| The wind was fair, but blew a mackerel gale:
093:3,0457[B  ]| The sickly young sat shivering on$4$ the shore,
093:3,0458[B  ]| Abhorred salt-water never seen before,
093:3,0459[B  ]| And prayed their tender mothers to$9$ delay
093:3,0460[B  ]| The passage, and expect a fairer day.
093:3,0461[B  ]| With these the Martyn readily concurred,
093:3,0462[B  ]| A church-begot, and church-believing bird;
093:3,0463[B  ]| Of little body, but of lofty mind,
093:3,0464[B  ]| Round bellied, for$4$ a dignity designed,
093:3,0465[B  ]| And much a dunce, as Martyns are by$4$ kind:
093:3,0466[B  ]| Yet often quoted Canon-laws, and Code,
093:3,0467[B  ]| And Fathers which$6#1$ he never understood,
093:3,0468[B  ]| But little learning needs in$4$ noble blood.
093:3,0469[B  ]| For$3$, sooth to$9$ say, the Swallow brought him in$5$,
093:3,0470[B  ]| Her household Chaplain, and her next of kin.
093:3,0471[B  ]| In$4$ Superstition silly to$4$ excess,
093:3,0472[B  ]| And casting Schemes, by$4$ planetary guess:
093:3,0473[B  ]| In$4$ fine, shortwinged, unfit himself to$9$ fly,
093:3,0474[B  ]| His fear foretold foul weather in$4$ the sky.
093:3,0475[B  ]| Besides, a Raven from a withered Oak,
093:3,0476[B  ]| Left of their lodging, was observed to$9$ croak.
093:3,0477[B  ]| That$6#2$ Omen liked him not, so$3$ his advice
093:3,0478[B  ]| Was present safety, bought at any price:
093:3,0479[B  ]| (A seeming pious care, that$6#1$ covered cowardice.)
093:3,0480[B  ]| To$9$ strengthen this, he told a boding dream,
093:3,0481[B  ]| Of rising waters, and a troubled stream,
093:3,0482[B  ]| Sure signs of anguish, dangers and distress,
093:3,0483[B  ]| With something more not lawful to$9$ express:
093:3,0484[B  ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ he slyly seemed to$9$ intimate
093:3,0485[B  ]| Some secret revelation of their fate.
093:3,0486[B  ]| For$3$ he concluded, once upon$4$ a time,
093:3,0487[B  ]| He found a leaf inscribed with sacred rhyme,
093:3,0488[B  ]| Whose antique characters did well denote
093:3,0489[B  ]| The Sibyl's hand of the Cumaean Grot:
093:3,0490[B  ]| The mad Divineress had plainly writ,
093:3,0491[B  ]| A time should come (but many ages yet,)
093:3,0492[B  ]| In$4$ which$6#1$, sinister destinies ordain,
093:3,0493[B  ]| A Dame should drown with all her feathered train,
093:3,0494[B  ]| And seas from thence be called the Chelidonian main.
093:3,0495[B  ]| At this, some shook for$4$ fear, the more devout
093:3,0496[B  ]| Arose, and blessed themselves from head to$4$ foot.
093:3,0497[B  ]| It is true, some stagers of the wiser sort
093:3,0498[B  ]| Made all these idle wonderments their sport:
093:3,0499[B  ]| They said, their only danger was delay,
093:3,0500[B  ]| And he who$6#1$ heard what every fool could say,
093:3,0501[B  ]| Would never fix his thoughts, but trim his time away.
093:3,0502[B  ]| The passage yet was good, the wind, it is true,
093:3,0503[B  ]| Was somewhat high, but that$6#2$ was nothing new,
093:3,0504[B  ]| Nor more than usual Equinoxes blew.
093:3,0505[B  ]| The Sun (already from the scales declined)
093:3,0506[B  ]| Gave little hopes of better days behind,
093:3,0507[B  ]| But change from bad to$4$ worse of weather and of wind.
093:3,0508[B  ]| Nor need they fear the dampness of the Sky
093:3,0509[B  ]| Should flag their wings, and hinder them to$9$ fly,
093:3,0510[B  ]| It was only water thrown on$4$ sails too dry.
093:3,0511[B  ]| But, least of all Philosophy presumes
093:3,0512[B  ]| Of truth in$4$ dreams, from melancholy fumes:
093:3,0513[B  ]| Perhaps the Martyn, housed in$4$ holy ground,
093:3,0514[B  ]| Might think of Ghosts that$6#1$ walk their midnight round,
093:3,0515[B  ]| Till grosser atoms tumbling in$4$ the stream
093:3,0516[B  ]| Of fancy, madly met and clubbed into a dream.
093:3,0517[B  ]| As little weight his vain presages bear,
093:3,0518[B  ]| Of ill effect to$4$ such alone who$6#1$ fear.
093:3,0519[B  ]| Most prophecies are of a piece with these,
093:3,0520[B  ]| Each Nostradamus can foretell with ease:
093:3,0521[B  ]| Not naming persons, and confounding times,
093:3,0522[B  ]| One casual truth supports a thousand lying rhymes.
093:3,0523[B  ]| The advice was true, but fear had seized the most,
093:3,0524[B  ]| And all good counsel is on$4$ cowards lost.
093:3,0525[B  ]| The question crudely put, to$9$ shun delay,
093:3,0526[B  ]| It was carried by$4$ the major part to$9$ stay.
093:3,0527[B  ]| His point thus gained, Sir Martyn dated thence
093:3,0528[B  ]| His power, and from a Priest became a Prince.
093:3,0529[B  ]| He ordered all things with a busy care,
093:3,0530[B  ]| And cells, and refectories did prepare,
093:3,0531[B  ]| And large provisions laid of winter fare:
093:3,0532[B  ]| But now and then let fall a word or two
093:3,0533[B  ]| Of hope, that$3$ heaven some miracle might show,
093:3,0534[B  ]| And, for$4$ their sakes, the sun should backward go;
093:3,0535[B  ]| Against the laws of nature upward climb,
093:3,0536[B  ]| And, mounted on$4$ the Ram, renew the prime:
093:3,0537[B  ]| For$4$ which$6#1$ two proofs in$4$ Sacred story lay,
093:3,0538[B  ]| Of Ahaz' dial, and of Joshuah's day.
093:3,0539[B  ]| In$4$ expectation of such times as these
093:3,0540[B  ]| A chapel housed them, truly called of ease:
093:3,0541[B  ]| For$3$ Martyn much devotion did not ask,
093:3,0542[B  ]| They prayed sometimes, and that$6#2$ was all their task.
093:3,0543[B  ]| It happened (as beyond the reach of wit
093:3,0544[B  ]| Blind prophecies may have a lucky hit)
093:3,0545[B  ]| That$3$, this accomplished, or at least in$4$ part,
093:3,0546[B  ]| Gave great repute to$4$ their new Merlin's art.
093:3,0547[B  ]| Some Swifts, the Giants of the Swallow kind,
093:3,0548[B  ]| Large limbed, stout-hearted, but of stupid mind,
093:3,0549[B  ]| (For$4$ Swisses, or for$4$ Gibeonites designed,)
093:3,0550[B  ]| These Lubbers, peeping through a broken pane,
093:3,0551[B  ]| To$9$ suck fresh air, surveyed the neighbouring plain,
093:3,0552[B  ]| And saw (but scarcely could believe their eyes)
093:3,0553[B  ]| New blossoms flourish, and new flowers arise;
093:3,0554[B  ]| As God had been abroad, and walking there,
093:3,0555[B  ]| Had left his foot-steps, and reformed the year:
093:3,0556[B  ]| The sunny hills from far were seen to$9$ glow
093:3,0557[B  ]| With glittering beams, and in$4$ the meads below
093:3,0558[B  ]| The burnished brooks appeared with liquid gold to$9$ flow.
093:3,0559[B  ]| At last they heard the foolish Cuckoo sing,
093:3,0560[B  ]| Whose note proclaimed the holy day of spring.
093:3,0561[B  ]| No$2$ longer doubting, all prepare to$9$ fly,
093:3,0562[B  ]| And repossess their patrimonial sky.
093:3,0563[B  ]| The Priest before them did his wings display;
093:3,0564[B  ]| And, that$3$ good omens might attend their way,
093:3,0565[B  ]| As luck would have it, it was St% Martyn's day.
093:3,0566[B  ]| Who$6#2$ but the Swallow now triumphs alone?
093:3,0567[B  ]| The Canopy of heaven is all her own,
093:3,0568[B  ]| Her youthful offspring to$4$ their haunts repair;
093:3,0569[B  ]| And glide along in$4$ glades, and skim in$4$ air,
093:3,0570[B  ]| And dip for$4$ insects in$4$ the purling springs,
093:3,0571[B  ]| And stoop on$4$ rivers to$9$ refresh their wings.
093:3,0572[B  ]| Their mothers think a fair provision made,
093:3,0573[B  ]| That$3$ every son can live upon$4$ his trade,
093:3,0574[B  ]| And now the careful charge is off their hands,
093:3,0575[B  ]| Look out for$4$ husbands, and new nuptial bands:
093:3,0576[B  ]| The youthful widow longs to$9$ be supplied;
093:3,0577[B  ]| But first the lover is by$4$ Lawyers tied
093:3,0578[B  ]| To$9$ settle jointure-chimneys on$4$ the bride.
093:3,0579[B  ]| So$5#1$ thick they couple, in$4$ so$5#1$ short a space,
093:3,0580[B  ]| That$3$ Martyns' marriage offrings rise apace;
093:3,0581[B  ]| Their ancient houses, running to$4$ decay,
093:3,0582[B  ]| Are furbished up$5$, and cemented with clay;
093:3,0583[B  ]| They teem already; store of eggs are laid,
093:3,0584[B  ]| And brooding mothers call Lucina's aid.
093:3,0585[B  ]| Fame spreads the news, and foreign fowls appear
093:3,0586[B  ]| In$4$ flocks to$9$ greet the new returning year,
093:3,0587[B  ]| To$9$ bless the founder, and partake the cheer.
093:3,0588[B  ]| And now it was time (so$5#1$ fast their numbers rise)
093:3,0589[B  ]| To$9$ plant abroad, and people colonies;
093:3,0590[B  ]| The youth drawn forth, as Martyn had desired,
093:3,0591[B  ]| (For$3$ so$5#2$ their cruel destiny required)
093:3,0592[B  ]| Were set far off on$4$ an ill fated day;
093:3,0593[B  ]| The rest would need conduct them on$4$ their way,
093:3,0594[B  ]| And Martyn went, because he feared alone to$9$ stay.
093:3,0595[B  ]| So$5#1$ long they flew with inconsiderate haste
093:3,0596[B  ]| That$3$ now their afternoon began to$9$ waste;
093:3,0597[B  ]| And, what was ominous, that$6#2$ very morn
093:3,0598[B  ]| The Sun was entered into Capricorn;
093:3,0599[B  ]| Which$6#1$, by$4$ their bad Astronomers' account,
093:3,0600[B  ]| That$6#2$ week the virgin balance should remount;
093:3,0601[B  ]| An infant moon eclipsed him in$4$ his way,
093:3,0602[B  ]| And hid the small remainders of his day:
093:3,0603[B  ]| The crowd amazed, pursued no$2$ certain mark;
093:3,0604[B  ]| But birds met birds, and justled in$4$ the dark;
093:3,0605[B  ]| Few mind the public in$4$ a Panic fright;
093:3,0606[B  ]| And fear increased the horror of the night.
093:3,0607[B  ]| Night came, but unattended with repose,
093:3,0608[B  ]| Alone she came, no$2$ sleep their eyes to$9$ close,
093:3,0609[B  ]| Alone, and black she came, no$2$ friendly stars arose.
093:3,0610[B  ]| What should they do, beset with dangers round,
093:3,0611[B  ]| No$2$ neighbouring Dorp, no$2$ lodging to$9$ be found,
093:3,0612[B  ]| But bleaky plains, and bare unhospitable ground?
093:3,0613[B  ]| The latter brood, who$6#1$ just began to$9$ fly
093:3,0614[B  ]| Sick-feathered, and unpractised in$4$ the sky,
093:3,0615[B  ]| For$4$ succour to$4$ their helpless mother call,
093:3,0616[B  ]| She spread her wings; some few beneath them crawl,
093:3,0617[B  ]| She spread them wider yet, but could not cover all.
093:3,0618[B  ]| To$9$ augment their woes, the winds began to$9$ move
093:3,0619[B  ]| Debate in$4$ air, for$4$ empty fields above,
093:3,0620[B  ]| Till Boreas got the skies, and poured amain
093:3,0621[B  ]| His rattling hail-stones mixed with snow and rain.
093:3,0622[B  ]| The joyless morning late arose, and found
093:3,0623[B  ]| A dreadful desolation reign a-round,
093:3,0624[B  ]| Some buried in$4$ the Snow, some frozen to$4$ the ground:
093:3,0625[B  ]| The rest were struggling still with death, and lay
093:3,0626[B  ]| The Crows and Ravens rights, and undefended prey;
093:3,0627[B  ]| Excepting Martyn's race, for$3$ they and he
093:3,0628[B  ]| Had gained the shelter of a hollow tree,
093:3,0629[B  ]| But soon discovered by$4$ a sturdy clown,
093:3,0630[B  ]| He headed all the rabble of a town,
093:3,0631[B  ]| And finished them with bats, or polled them down.
093:3,0632[B  ]| Martyn himself was caught alive, and tried
093:3,0633[B  ]| For$4$ treasonous crimes, because the laws provide
093:3,0634[B  ]| No$2$ Martyn there in$4$ winter shall abide.
093:3,0635[B  ]| High on$4$ an Oak which$6#1$ never leaf shall bear,
093:3,0636[B  ]| He breathed his last, exposed to$4$ open air,
093:3,0637[B  ]| And there his corpse, unblessed, are hanging still,
093:3,0638[B  ]| To$9$ show the change of winds with his prophetic bill.
093:3,0639['  ]| The patience of the Hind did almost fail,
093:3,0640['  ]| For$3$ well she marked the malice of the tale:
093:3,0641['  ]| Which$6#1$ Ribbald art their church to$4$ Luther owes,
093:3,0642['  ]| In$4$ malice it began, by$4$ malice grows,
093:3,0643['  ]| He sowed the Serpent's teeth, an iron-harvest rose.
093:3,0644['  ]| But most in$4$ Martyn's character and fate,
093:3,0645['  ]| She saw her slandered sons, the Panther's hate,
093:3,0646['  ]| The people's rage, the persecuting state:
093:3,0647['  ]| Then said, 
093:3,0647[A  ]| I take the advice in$4$ friendly part,
093:3,0648[A  ]| You clear your conscience, or at least your heart:
093:3,0649[A  ]| Perhaps you failed in$4$ our fore-seeing skill,
093:3,0650[A  ]| For$3$ Swallows are unlucky birds to$9$ kill:
093:3,0651[A  ]| As for$4$ my sons, the family is blessed,
093:3,0652[A  ]| Whose every child is equal to$4$ the rest:
093:3,0653[A  ]| No$2$ church reformed can boast a blameless line;
093:3,0654[A  ]| Such Martyns build in$4$ yours, and more than mine:
093:3,0655[A  ]| Or else an old fanatic Author lies
093:3,0656[A  ]| Who$6#1$ summed their Scandals up$5$ by$4$ Centuries.
093:3,0657[A  ]| But, through your parable I plainly see
093:3,0658[A  ]| The bloody laws, the crowd's barbarity:
093:3,0659[A  ]| The sun-shine that$6#1$ offends the purblind sight,
093:3,0660[A  ]| Had some their wishes, it would soon be night.
093:3,0661[A  ]| Mistake me not, the charge concerns not you,
093:3,0662[A  ]| Your sons are malcontents, but yet are true,
093:3,0663[A  ]| As far as non-resistance makes them so$5#2$,
093:3,0664[A  ]| But that$6#2$ is a word of neutral sense you know,
093:3,0665[A  ]| A passive term which$6#1$ no$2$ relief will$1$ bring,
093:3,0666[A  ]| But trims between a rebel and a king.
093:3,0667[B  ]| Rest well assured 
093:3,0667['  ]| the Pardelis replied,
093:3,0668[B  ]| My sons would all support the regal side,
093:3,0669[B  ]| Though heaven forbid the cause by$4$ battle should be tried.
093:3,0670['  ]| The Matron answered with a loud Amen,
093:3,0671['  ]| And thus pursued her argument again.
093:3,0672[A  ]| If as you say, and as I hope no$2$ less,
093:3,0673[A  ]| Your sons will$1$ practise what yourself profess,
093:3,0674[A  ]| What angry power prevents our present peace?
093:3,0675[A  ]| The Lion, studious of our common good,
093:3,0676[A  ]| Desires, (and Kings' desires are ill withstood,)
093:3,0677[A  ]| To$9$ join our Nations in$4$ a lasting love;
093:3,0678[A  ]| The bars between are easy to$9$ remove,
093:3,0679[A  ]| For$3$ sanguinary laws were never made above.
093:3,0680[A  ]| If you condemn that$6#2$ Price of Tyranny
093:3,0681[A  ]| Whose mandate forced your Gallic friends to$9$ fly,
093:3,0682[A  ]| Make not a worse example of your own,
093:3,0683[A  ]| Or cease to$9$ rail at causeless rigour shown,
093:3,0684[A  ]| And let the guiltless person throw the stone.
093:3,0685[A  ]| His blunted sword, your suffering brotherhood
093:3,0686[A  ]| Have seldom felt, he stops it short of blood:
093:3,0687[A  ]| But you have ground the persecuting knife,
093:3,0688[A  ]| And set it to$4$ a razor edge on$4$ life.
093:3,0689[A  ]| Cursed be the wit which$6#1$ cruelty refines,
093:3,0690[A  ]| Or to$4$ his father's rod the Scorpion joins;
093:3,0691[A  ]| Your finger is more gross than the great Monarch's loins.
093:3,0692[A  ]| But you perhaps remove that$6#2$ bloody note,
093:3,0693[A  ]| And stick it on$4$ the first Reformer's coat.
093:3,0694[A  ]| Oh let their crime in$4$ long oblivion sleep,
093:3,0695[A  ]| It was theirs indeed to$9$ make, it is yours to$9$ keep.
093:3,0696[A  ]| Unjust, or just, is all the question now,
093:3,0697[A  ]| It is plain, that$3$ not repealing you allow.
093:3,0698[A  ]| To$9$ name the Test would put you in$4$ a rage,
093:3,0699[A  ]| You charge not that$6#2$ on$4$ any former age,
093:3,0700[A  ]| But smile to$9$ think how innocent you stand
093:3,0701[A  ]| Armed by$4$ a weapon put into your hand.
093:3,0702[A  ]| Yet still remember that$3$ you wield a sword
093:3,0703[A  ]| Forged by$4$ your foes against your Sovereign Lord,
093:3,0704[A  ]| Designed to$9$ hew the imperial Cedar down,
093:3,0705[A  ]| Defraud Succession, and dis-heir the Crown.
093:3,0706[A  ]| To$9$ abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
093:3,0707[A  ]| Is to$9$ hate Traitors, and the treason love.
093:3,0708[A  ]| What means it else, which$6#1$ now your children say,
093:3,0709[A  ]| We made it not, nor will$1$ we take away?
093:3,0710[A  ]| Suppose some great Oppressor had by$4$ slight
093:3,0711[A  ]| Of law, disseized your brother of his right,
093:3,0712[A  ]| Your common sire surrendering in$4$ a fright;
093:3,0713[A  ]| Would you to$4$ that$6#2$ unrighteous title stand,
093:3,0714[A  ]| Left by$4$ the villain's will$0$ to$9$ heir the land?
093:3,0715[A  ]| More just was Judas, who$6#1$ his Saviour sold;
093:3,0716[A  ]| The sacrilegious bribe he could not hold,
093:3,0717[A  ]| Nor hang in$4$ peace, before he rendered back the gold.
093:3,0718[A  ]| What more could you have done, than now you do,
093:3,0719[A  ]| Had Oates and Bedlow, and their Plot been true?
093:3,0720[A  ]| Some specious reasons for$4$ those wrongs were found;
093:3,0721[A  ]| The dire Magicians threw their mists around,
093:3,0722[A  ]| And wise men walked as on$4$ enchanted ground.
093:3,0723[A  ]| But now when time has made the imposture plain,
093:3,0724[A  ]| (Late though he followed truth, and limping held her train,)
093:3,0725[A  ]| What new delusion charms your cheated eyes again?
093:3,0726[A  ]| The painted Harlot might awhile bewitch,
093:3,0727[A  ]| But why the Hag uncased, and all obscene with itch?
093:3,0728[A  ]| The first Reformers were a modest race,
093:3,0729[A  ]| Our Peers possessed in$4$ peace their native place:
093:3,0730[A  ]| And when rebellious arms overturned the state,
093:3,0731[A  ]| They suffered only in$4$ the common fate;
093:3,0732[A  ]| But now the Sovereign mounts the regal chair
093:3,0733[A  ]| And mitred seats are full, yet David's bench is bare:
093:3,0734[A  ]| Your answer is, they were not dispossessed,
093:3,0735[A  ]| They need but rub their mettle on$4$ the Test
093:3,0736[A  ]| To$9$ prove their ore: it were well if gold alone
093:3,0737[A  ]| Were touched and tried on$4$ your discerning stone;
093:3,0738[A  ]| But that$6#2$ unfaithful Test, unfound will$1$ pass
093:3,0739[A  ]| The dross of Atheists, and sectarian brass:
093:3,0740[A  ]| As if the experiment were made to$9$ hold
093:3,0741[A  ]| For$4$ base productions, and reject the gold:
093:3,0742[A  ]| Thus men ungodded may to$4$ places rise,
093:3,0743[A  ]| And sects may be preferred without disguise:
093:3,0744[A  ]| No$2$ danger to$4$ the church or state from these,
093:3,0745[A  ]| The Papist only has his Writ of ease.
093:3,0746[A  ]| No$2$ gainful office gives him the pretence
093:3,0747[A  ]| To$9$ grind the Subject or defraud the Prince.
093:3,0748[A  ]| Wrong conscience, or no$2$ conscience may deserve
093:3,0749[A  ]| To$9$ thrive, but ours alone is privileged to$9$ starve.
093:3,0750[A  ]| Still thank yourselves you cry, your noble race
093:3,0751[A  ]| We banish not, but they forsake the place.
093:3,0752[A  ]| Our doors are open: true, but before they come,
093:3,0753[A  ]| You toss your censing Test, and fume the room;
093:3,0754[A  ]| As if it were Toby's rival to$9$ expel,
093:3,0755[A  ]| And fright the fiend who$6#1$ could not bear the smell.
093:3,0756['  ]| To$4$ this the Panther sharply had replied,
093:3,0757['  ]| But, having gained a Verdict on$4$ her side,
093:3,0758['  ]| She wisely gave the loser leave to$9$ chide;
093:3,0759['  ]| Well satisfied to$9$ have the But and peace,
093:3,0760['  ]| And for$4$ the Plaintiff's cause she cared the less,
093:3,0761['  ]| Because she sued 7in 7forma 7Pauperis;
093:3,0762['  ]| Yet thought it decent something should be said,
093:3,0763['  ]| For$3$ secret guilt by$4$ silence is betrayed:
093:3,0764['  ]| So$3$ neither granted all, nor much denied,
093:3,0765['  ]| But answered with a yawning kind of pride.
093:3,0766[B  ]| Methinks such terms of proffered peace you bring
093:3,0767[B  ]| As once AEneas to$4$ the Italian King:
093:3,0768[B  ]| By$4$ long possession all the land is mine,
093:3,0769[B  ]| You strangers come with your intruding line,
093:3,0770[B  ]| To$9$ share my sceptre, which$6#1$ you call to$9$ join.
093:3,0771[B  ]| You plead like$4$ him an ancient Pedigree,
093:3,0772[B  ]| And claim a peaceful seat by$4$ fate's decree.
093:3,0773[B  ]| In$4$ ready pomp your Sacrificer stands,
093:3,0774[B  ]| To$9$ unite the Trojan and the Latin bands,
093:3,0775[B  ]| And that$3$ the League more firmly may be tied,
093:3,0776[B  ]| Demand the fair Lavinia for$4$ your bride.
093:3,0777[B  ]| Thus plausibly you veil the intended wrong,
093:3,0778[B  ]| But still you bring your exiled gods along;
093:3,0779[B  ]| And will$1$ endeavour in$4$ succeeding space,
093:3,0780[B  ]| Those household Poppits on$4$ our hearths to$9$ place.
093:3,0781[B  ]| Perhaps some barbarous laws have been preferred,
093:3,0782[B  ]| I spake against the Test, but was not heard;
093:3,0783[B  ]| These to$9$ rescind, and Peerage to$9$ restore,
093:3,0784[B  ]| My gracious Sovereign would my vote implore:
093:3,0785[B  ]| I owe him much, but owe my conscience more.
093:3,0786[A  ]| Conscience is then your Plea, 
093:3,0786['  ]| replied the Dame,
093:3,0787[A  ]| Which$6#1$ well-informed will$1$ ever be the same.
093:3,0788[A  ]| But yours is much of the Chameleon hue,
093:3,0789[A  ]| To$9$ change the dye with every different view.
093:3,0790[A  ]| When first the Lion sat with awful sway
093:3,0791[A  ]| Your conscience taught you duty to$9$ obey:
093:3,0792[A  ]| He might have had your Statues and your Test,
093:3,0793[A  ]| No$2$ conscience but of subjects was professed.
093:3,0794[A  ]| He found your temper, and no$2$ farther tried,
093:3,0795[A  ]| But on$4$ that$6#2$ broken reed your church relied.
093:3,0796[A  ]| In$4$ vain the sects assayed their utmost art
093:3,0797[A  ]| With offered treasure to$9$ espouse their part,
093:3,0798[A  ]| Their treasures were a bribe too mean to$9$ move his heart.
093:3,0799[A  ]| But when by$4$ long experience you had proved,
093:3,0800[A  ]| How far he could forgive, how well he loved;
093:3,0801[A  ]| A goodness that$6#1$ excelled his godlike race,
093:3,0802[A  ]| And only short of heaven's unbounded grace,
093:3,0803[A  ]| A flood of mercy that$6#1$ overflowed our Isle,
093:3,0804[A  ]| Calm in$4$ the rise, and fruitful as the Nile;
093:3,0805[A  ]| Forgetting whence your AEgypt was supplied,
093:3,0806[A  ]| You thought your Sovereign bound to$9$ send the tide:
093:3,0807[A  ]| Nor upward looked on$4$ that$6#2$ immortal spring,
093:3,0808[A  ]| But vainly deemed, he durst not be a king:
093:3,0809[A  ]| Then conscience, unrestrained by$4$ fear, began
093:3,0810[A  ]| To$9$ stretch her limits,and extend the span,
093:3,0811[A  ]| Did his indulgence as her gift dispose,
093:3,0812[A  ]| And made a wise Alliance with her foes.
093:3,0813[A  ]| Can conscience own the associating name,
093:3,0814[A  ]| And raise no$2$ blushes to$9$ conceal her shame?
093:3,0815[A  ]| For$4$ sure she has been thought a bashful Dame.
093:3,0816[A  ]| But if the cause by$4$ battle should be tried,
093:3,0817[A  ]| You grant she must espouse the regal side:
093:3,0818[A  ]| O Proteus Conscience, never to$9$ be tied!
093:3,0819[A  ]| What Phoebus from the Tripod shall disclose,
093:3,0820[A  ]| Which$6#1$ are in$4$ last resort, your friends or foes?
093:3,0821[A  ]| Homer, who$6#1$ learned the language of the sky,
093:3,0822[A  ]| The seeming Gordian knot would soon untie;
093:3,0823[A  ]| Immortal powers the term of conscience know,
093:3,0824[A  ]| But interest is her name with men below.
093:3,0825[B  ]| Conscience or interest be it, or both in$4$ one;
093:3,0826['  ]| (The Panther answered in$4$ a surly tone,)
093:3,0827[B  ]| The first commands me to$9$ maintain the Crown,
093:3,0828[B  ]| The last forbids to$9$ throw my barriers down.
093:3,0829[B  ]| Our penal laws no$2$ sons of yours admit,
093:3,0830[B  ]| Our Test excludes your Tribe from benefit.
093:3,0831[B  ]| These are my banks your ocean to$9$ withstand,
093:3,0832[B  ]| Which$6#1$ proudly rising overlooks the land:
093:3,0833[B  ]| And once let in$5$, with unresisted sway
093:3,0834[B  ]| Would sweep the Pastors and their flocks away.
093:3,0835[B  ]| Think not my judgment leads me to$9$ comply
093:3,0836[B  ]| With laws unjust, but hard necessity:
093:3,0837[B  ]| Imperious need which$6#1$ cannot be withstood
093:3,0838[B  ]| Makes ill authentic, for$4$ a greater good.
093:3,0839[B  ]| Possess your soul with patience, and attend:
093:3,0840[B  ]| A more auspicious Planet may ascend;
093:3,0841[B  ]| Good fortune may present some happier time,
093:3,0842[B  ]| With means to$9$ cancel my unwilling crime;
093:3,0843[B  ]| (Unwilling, witness all ye Powers above)
093:3,0844[B  ]| To$9$ mend my errors and redeem your love:
093:3,0845[B  ]| That$6#2$ little space you safely may allow,
093:3,0846[B  ]| Your all-dispensing power protects you now.
093:3,0847[A  ]| Hold, 
093:3,0847['  ]| said the Hind, 
093:3,0847[A  ]| it is needless to$9$ explain;
093:3,0848[A  ]| You would postpone me to$4$ another reign:
093:3,0849[A  ]| Till when you are content to$9$ be unjust,
093:3,0850[A  ]| Your part is to$9$ possess, and mine to$9$ trust.
093:3,0851[A  ]| A fair exchange proposed of future chance,
093:3,0852[A  ]| For$4$ present profit and inheritance:
093:3,0853[A  ]| Few words will$1$ serve to$9$ finish our dispute,
093:3,0854[A  ]| Who$6#1$ will$1$ not now repeal would persecute;
093:3,0855[A  ]| To$9$ ripen green revenge your hopes attend,
093:3,0856[A  ]| Wishing that$6#2$ happier Planet would ascend:
093:3,0857[A  ]| For$4$ shame let Conscience be your Plea no$2$ more,
093:3,0858[A  ]| To$9$ will$1$ hereafter, proves she might before;
093:3,0859[A  ]| But she is a Bawd to$4$ gain, and holds the Door.
093:3,0860[A  ]| Your care about your Banks, infers a fear
093:3,0861[A  ]| Of threatening Floods, and Inundations near;
093:3,0862[A  ]| If so$5#2$, a just Reprise would only be
093:3,0863[A  ]| Of what the Land usurped upon$4$ the Sea;
093:3,0864[A  ]| And all your Jealousies but serve to$9$ show
093:3,0865[A  ]| Your Ground is, like$4$ your Neighbour-Nation, low.
093:3,0866[A  ]| To$9$ intrench in$4$ what you grant unrighteous Laws,
093:3,0867[A  ]| Is to$9$ distrust the justice of your Cause;
093:3,0868[A  ]| And argues that$3$ the true Religion lies
093:3,0869[A  ]| In$4$ those weak Adversaries you despise.
093:3,0870[A  ]| Tyrannic force is that$6#2$ which$6#1$ least you fear,
093:3,0871[A  ]| The sound is frightful in$4$ a Christian's ear;
093:3,0872[A  ]| Avert it, Heaven; nor let that$6#2$ Plague be sent
093:3,0873[A  ]| To$4$ us from the dispeopled Continent.
093:3,0874[A  ]| But Piety commands me to$9$ refrain;
093:3,0875[A  ]| Those Prayers are needless in$4$ this Monarch's Reign.
093:3,0876[A  ]| Behold! how he protects your Friends oppressed,
093:3,0877[A  ]| Receives the Banished, succours the Distressed:
093:3,0878[A  ]| Behold, for$3$ you may read an honest open Breast.
093:3,0879[A  ]| He stand in$4$ Day-light, and disdains to$9$ hide
093:3,0880[A  ]| An Act to$4$ which$6#1$, by$4$ Honour he is tied,
093:3,0881[A  ]| A generous, laudable, and Kingly Pride.
093:3,0882[A  ]| Your Test he would repeal, his Peers restore,
093:3,0883[A  ]| This when he says he means, he means no$2$ more.
093:3,0884[B  ]| Well, 
093:3,0884['  ]| said the Panther, 
093:3,0884[B  ]| I believe him just,
093:3,0885[B  ]| And yet ~~ 
093:3,0885[A  ]| And yet, It is but because you must,
093:3,0886[A  ]| You would be trusted, but you would not trust.
093:3,0887['  ]| The Hind thus briefly, and disdained to$9$ enlarge
093:3,0888['  ]| On$4$ Power of Kings, and their Superior charge,
093:3,0889['  ]| As Heaven's Trustees before the People's choice:
093:3,0890['  ]| Though sure the Panther did not much rejoice
093:3,0891['  ]| To$9$ hear those Echoes given of her once Loyal voice.
093:3,0892['  ]| The Matron wooed her Kindness to$4$ the last,
093:3,0893['  ]| But could not win; her hour of Grace was past.
093:3,0894['  ]| Whom thus persisting when she could not bring
093:3,0895['  ]| To$9$ leave the Wolf, and to$9$ believe her King,
093:3,0896['  ]| She gave Her up$5$, and fairly wished her Joy
093:3,0897['  ]| Of her late Treaty with her new Ally:
093:3,0898['  ]| Which$6#1$ well she hoped would more successful prove,
093:3,0899['  ]| Than was the Pigeons' and the Buzzards' love.
093:3,0900['  ]| The Panther asked, 
093:3,0900[B  ]| what concord there could be
093:3,0901[B  ]| Between two kinds whose Natures disagree?
093:3,0902['  ]| The Dame replied, 
093:3,0902[A  ]| It is sung in$4$ every Street,
093:3,0903[A  ]| The common chat of Gossips when they meet:
093:3,0904[A  ]| But, since unheard by$4$ you, it is worth your while
093:3,0905[A  ]| To$9$ take a wholesome Tale, though told in$4$ homely style.
093:3,0906[A  ]| A Plain good Man, whose Name is understood,
093:3,0907[A  ]| (So$5#1$ few deserve the name of Plain and Good)
093:3,0908[A  ]| Of three fair lineal Lordships stood possessed,
093:3,0909[A  ]| And lived, as reason was, upon$4$ the best;
093:3,0910[A  ]| Inured to$4$ hardships from his early Youth,
093:3,0911[A  ]| Much had he done, and suffered for$4$ his truth:
093:3,0912[A  ]| At Land, and Sea, in$4$ many a doubtful Fight,
093:3,0913[A  ]| Was never known a more adventurous Knight,
093:3,0914[A  ]| Who$6#1$ oftener drew his Sword, and always for$4$ the right.
093:3,0915[A  ]| As Fortune would (his fortune came though late)
093:3,0916[A  ]| He took Possession of his just Estate:
093:3,0917[A  ]| Nor racked his Tenants with increase of Rent,
093:3,0918[A  ]| Nor lived too sparing, nor too largely spent;
093:3,0919[A  ]| But overlooked his Hinds, their Pay was just,
093:3,0920[A  ]| And ready, for$3$ he scorned to$9$ go on$4$ trust:
093:3,0921[A  ]| Slow to$9$ resolve, but in$4$ performance quick;
093:3,0922[A  ]| So$5#1$ true, that$3$ he was awkard at a trick.
093:3,0923[A  ]| For$3$ little Souls on$4$ little shifts rely,
093:3,0924[A  ]| And coward Arts of mean Expedients try:
093:3,0925[A  ]| The noble Mind will$1$ dare do anything but lie.
093:3,0926[A  ]| False Friends, (his deadliest foes,) could find no$2$ way
093:3,0927[A  ]| But shows of honest bluntness to$9$ betray;
093:3,0928[A  ]| That$6#2$ unsuspected plainness he believed,
093:3,0929[A  ]| He looked into Himself, and was deceived.
093:3,0930[A  ]| Some lucky Planet sure attends his Birth,
093:3,0931[A  ]| Or Heaven would make a Miracle on$4$ Earth;
093:3,0932[A  ]| For$3$ prosperous Honesty is seldom seen;
093:3,0933[A  ]| To$9$ bear so$5#1$ dead a weight, and yet to$9$ win.
093:3,0934[A  ]| It looks as Fate with Nature's Law would strive,
093:3,0935[A  ]| To$9$ show Plain dealing once an age may thrive:
093:3,0936[A  ]| And, when so$5#1$ tough a frame she could not bend,
093:3,0937[A  ]| Exceeded her Commission to$9$ befriend.
093:3,0938[A  ]| This grateful man, as Heaven increased his Store,
093:3,0939[A  ]| Gave God again, and daily fed his Poor;
093:3,0940[A  ]| His House with all convenience was purveyed,
093:3,0941[A  ]| The rest he found, but raised the Fabric where he prayed;
093:3,0942[A  ]| And in$4$ that$6#2$ Sacred Place, his beauteous Wife
093:3,0943[A  ]| Employed Her happiest hours of Holy Life.
093:3,0944[A  ]| Nor did their Alms extend to$4$ those alone
093:3,0945[A  ]| Whom common Faith more strictly made their own,
093:3,0946[A  ]| A sort of Doves were housed too near their Hall,
093:3,0947[A  ]| Who$6#1$ cross the Proverb, and abound with Gall.
093:3,0948[A  ]| Though some it is true, are passively inclined,
093:3,0949[A  ]| The greater Part degenerate from their kind;
093:3,0950[A  ]| Voracious Birds, that$6#1$ hotly Bill and breed,
093:3,0951[A  ]| And largely drink, because on$4$ Salt they feed.
093:3,0952[A  ]| Small Gain from them their Bounteous Owner draws,
093:3,0953[A  ]| Yet, bound by$4$ Promise, he supports their Cause,
093:3,0954[A  ]| As Corporations privileged by$4$ Laws.
093:3,0955[A  ]| That$6#2$ House which$6#1$ harbour to$4$ their kind affords
093:3,0956[A  ]| Was built, long since, God knows, for$4$ better Birds;
093:3,0957[A  ]| But fluttering there they nestle near the Throne,
093:3,0958[A  ]| And lodge in$4$ Habitations not their own,
093:3,0959[A  ]| By$4$ their high Crops, and Corny Gizzards known.
093:3,0960[A  ]| Like$4$ Harpies they could scent a plenteous board,
093:3,0961[A  ]| Then to$9$ be sure they never failed their Lord.
093:3,0962[A  ]| The rest was form, and bare Attendance paid,
093:3,0963[A  ]| They drunk, and eat, and grudgingly obeyed.
093:3,0964[A  ]| The more they fed, they ravened still for$4$ more,
093:3,0965[A  ]| They drained from Dan, and left Beersheba poor;
093:3,0966[A  ]| All this they had by$4$ law, and none repined,
093:3,0967[A  ]| The preference was but due to$4$ Levi's Kind,
093:3,0968[A  ]| But when some Lay-preferment fell by$4$ chance
093:3,0969[A  ]| The Gourmands made it their Inheritance.
093:3,0970[A  ]| When once possessed, they never quit their Claim,
093:3,0971[A  ]| For$3$ then it is sanctified to$4$ Heaven's high Name;
093:3,0972[A  ]| And Hallowed thus they cannot give Consent,
093:3,0973[A  ]| The Gift should be profaned by$4$ Worldly management.
093:3,0974[A  ]| Their Flesh was never to$4$ the Table served,
093:3,0975[A  ]| Though it is not thence inferred the Birds were starved;
093:3,0976[A  ]| But that$3$ their Master did not like$1$ the Food,
093:3,0977[A  ]| As rank, and breeding Melancholy Blood.
093:3,0978[A  ]| Nor did it with His Gracious Nature suit,
093:3,0979[A  ]| Even though they were not Doves, to$9$ persecute:
093:3,0980[A  ]| Yet He refused, (nor could they take Offence)
093:3,0981[A  ]| Their Glutton Kind should teach him abstinence.
093:3,0982[A  ]| Nor Consecrated Grain their Wheat he thought,
093:3,0983[A  ]| Which$6#1$ new from treading in$4$ their Bills they brought:
093:3,0984[A  ]| But left his Hinds each in$4$ his Private Power,
093:3,0985[A  ]| That$3$ those who$6#1$ like$4$ the Bran might leave the Flower.
093:3,0986[A  ]| He for$4$ himself, and not for$4$ others chose,
093:3,0987[A  ]| Nor would He be imposed on$5$, nor impose;
093:3,0988[A  ]| But in$4$ their Faces His Devotion paid,
093:3,0989[A  ]| And Sacrifice with Solemn Rites was made,
093:3,0990[A  ]| And Sacred Incense on$4$ His Altars laid.
093:3,0991[A  ]| Besides these jolly Birds whose Crops impure,
093:3,0992[A  ]| Repaid their Commons with their Salt Manure;
093:3,0993[A  ]| Another Farm he had behind his House,
093:3,0994[A  ]| Not overstocked, but barely for$4$ his use;
093:3,0995[A  ]| Wherein his poor Domestic Poultry fed,
093:3,0996[A  ]| And from His Pious Hands received their Bread.
093:3,0997[A  ]| Our pampered Pigeons with malignant Eyes,
093:3,0998[A  ]| Beheld these Inmates, and their Nurseries:
093:3,0999[A  ]| Though hard their fare, and Evening, and at Morn
093:3,1000[A  ]| A Cruise of Water and an Ear of corn;
093:3,1001[A  ]| Yet still they grudged that$6#2$ Modicum, and thought
093:3,1002[A  ]| A Sheaf in$4$ every single Grain was brought;
093:3,1003[A  ]| Fain would they filch that$6#2$ little Food away,
093:3,1004[A  ]| While unrestrained those happy Gluttons prey.
093:3,1005[A  ]| And much they grieved to$9$ see so$5#1$ nigh their Hall,
093:3,1006[A  ]| The Bird that$6#1$ warned St% Peter of his Fall; 
093:3,1007[A  ]| That$3$ he should raise his mitred Crest on$4$ high,
093:3,1008[A  ]| And clap his Wings, and call his Family
093:3,1009[A  ]| To$4$ Sacred Rites; and vex the Ethereal Powers
093:3,1010[A  ]| With midnight Matins, at uncivil Hours:
093:3,1011[A  ]| Nay more, his quiet Neighbours should molest,
093:3,1012[A  ]| Just in$4$ the sweetness of their Morning rest.
093:3,1013[A  ]| Beast of a Bird, supinely when he might
093:3,1014[A  ]| Lie snug and sleep, to$9$ rise before the light:
093:3,1015[A  ]| What if his dull Forefathers used that$6#2$ cry,
093:3,1016[A  ]| Could he not let a Bad Example die?
093:3,1017[A  ]| The World was fallen into an easier way,
093:3,1018[A  ]| This Age knew better, than to$9$ Fast and Pray.
093:3,1019[A  ]| Good Sense in$4$ Sacred Worship would appear
093:3,1020[A  ]| So$5#2$ to$9$ begin, as they might end the year.
093:3,1021[A  ]| Such feats in$4$ former times had wrought the falls
093:3,1022[A  ]| Of crowing Chanticleers in$4$ Cloistered Walls.
093:3,1023[A  ]| Expelled for$4$ this, and for$4$ their Lands they fled,
093:3,1024[A  ]| And Sister Partlet with her hooded head
093:3,1025[A  ]| Was hooted hence, because she would not pray a-bed.
093:3,1026[A  ]| The way to$9$ win the restive World to$4$ God,
093:3,1027[A  ]| Was to$9$ lay by$4$ the Disciplining Rod,
093:3,1028[A  ]| Unnatural Fasts, and Foreign Forms of Pray'r;
093:3,1029[A  ]| Religion frights us with a mien severe.
093:3,1030[A  ]| It is Prudence to$9$ reform her into Ease,
093:3,1031[A  ]| And put Her in$4$ undress to$9$ make Her pleas:
093:3,1032[A  ]| A lively Faith will$1$ bear aloft the Mind,
093:3,1033[A  ]| And leave the Luggage of Good Works behind.
093:3,1034[A  ]| Such Doctrines in$4$ the Pigeon-house were taught,
093:3,1035[A  ]| You need not ask how wondrously they wrought;
093:3,1036[A  ]| But sure the common Cry was all for$4$ these
093:3,1037[A  ]| Whose Life, and Precept both encouraged Ease.
093:3,1038[A  ]| Yet fearing those alluring Baits might fail, 
093:3,1039[A  ]| And Holy Deeds over all their Arts prevail:
093:3,1040[A  ]| (For$3$ Vice, though frontless, and of hardened Face
093:3,1041[A  ]| Is daunted at the sight of awful Grace)
093:3,1042[A  ]| An hideous Figure of their Foes they drew,
093:3,1043[A  ]| Nor Lines, nor Looks, nor Shades, nor Colours true;
093:3,1044[A  ]| And this Grotesque design, exposed to$4$ Public view.
093:3,1045[A  ]| One would have thought it some AEgyptian Piece,
093:3,1046[A  ]| With Garden-Gods, and barking Deities,
093:3,1047[A  ]| More thick than Ptolomey has stuck the Skies.
093:3,1048[A  ]| All so$5#1$ perverse a Draught, so$5#1$ far unlike,
093:3,1049[A  ]| It was no$2$ Libel where it meant to$9$ strike:
093:3,1050[A  ]| Yet still the daubing pleased, and Great and Small
093:3,1051[A  ]| To$9$ view the Monster crowded Pigeon-hall.
093:3,1052[A  ]| There Chanticleer was drawn upon$4$ his knees
093:3,1053[A  ]| Adoring Shrines, and Stocks of Sainted Trees,
093:3,1054[A  ]| And by$4$ him, a misshapen, ugly Race;
093:3,1055[A  ]| The Curse of God was seen on$4$ every Face;
093:3,1056[A  ]| No$2$ Holland Emblem could that$6#2$ Malice mend,
093:3,1057[A  ]| But still the worse the look the fitter for$4$ a Fiend.
093:3,1058[A  ]| The Master of the Farm displeased to$9$ find
093:3,1059[A  ]| So$5#1$ much of Rancour in$4$ so$5#1$ mild a kind,
093:3,1060[A  ]| Enquired into the Cause, and came to$9$ know,
093:3,1061[A  ]| The Passive Church had struck the foremost blow:
093:3,1062[A  ]| With groundless Fears, and Jealousies possessed,
093:3,1063[A  ]| As if this troublesome intruding Guest
093:3,1064[A  ]| Would drive the Birds of Venus, from their Nest,
093:3,1065[A  ]| A Deed his inborn Equity abhorred,
093:3,1066[A  ]| But Interest will$1$ not trust, though God should plight his Word.
093:3,1067[A  ]| A Law, the Source of many Future harms,
093:3,1068[A  ]| Had banished all the Poultry from the Farms;
093:3,1069[A  ]| With loss of Life, if any should be found
093:3,1070[A  ]| To$9$ crow or peck on$4$ this forbidden Ground.
093:3,1071[A  ]| That$6#2$ Bloody Statute chiefly was designed
093:3,1072[A  ]| For$4$ Chanticleer the white, of Clergy kind;
093:3,1073[A  ]| But after-malice did not forget
093:3,1074[A  ]| The Lay that$6#1$ wore the Robe, and Coronet; 
093:3,1075[A  ]| For$4$ them, for$4$ their Inferiors and Allies,
093:3,1076[A  ]| Their foes a deadly Shibboleth devise:
093:3,1077[A  ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ unrighteously it was decreed,
093:3,1078[A  ]| That$3$ none to$9$ Trust, or Profit should succeed,
093:3,1079[A  ]| Who$6#1$ would not swallow first a poisonous wicked Weed,
093:3,1080[A  ]| Or that$6#2$, to$4$ which$6#1$ old Socrates was cursed, 
093:3,1081[A  ]| Or Henbane-Juice to$9$ swell them till they burst.
093:3,1082[A  ]| The Patron (as in$4$ reason) thought it hard
093:3,1083[A  ]| To$9$ see this Inquisition in$4$ his Yard,
093:3,1084[A  ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ the Soveraign was of Subjects' use debarred.
093:3,1085[A  ]| All gentle means he tried, which$6#1$ might withdraw
093:3,1086[A  ]| The Effects of so$5#1$ unnatural a Law:
093:3,1087[A  ]| But still the Dove-house obstinately stood
093:3,1088[A  ]| Deaf to$4$ their own, and to$4$ their Neighbours' good:
093:3,1089[A  ]| And which$6#1$ was worse, (if any worse could be)
093:3,1090[A  ]| Repented of their boasted Loyalty:
093:3,1091[A  ]| Now made the Champions of a cruel Cause,
093:3,1092[A  ]| And drunk with Fumes of Popular Applause;
093:3,1093[A  ]| For$3$ those whom God to$4$ ruin has designed,
093:3,1094[A  ]| He fits for$4$ fate, and first destroys their Mind
093:3,1095[A  ]| New Doubts indeed they daily strove to$9$ raise,
093:3,1096[A  ]| Suggested Dangers, interposed Delays,
093:3,1097[A  ]| And Emissary Pigeons had in$4$ store.
093:3,1098[A  ]| Such as the Meccan Prophet used of yore,
093:3,1099[A  ]| To$9$ whisper Counsels in$4$ their Patron's Ear,
093:3,1100[A  ]| And veiled their false Advice with Zealous Fear.
093:3,1101[A  ]| The Master smiled to$9$ see them work in$4$ vain,
093:3,1102[A  ]| To$9$ wear him out, and make an idle reign:
093:3,1103[A  ]| He saw, but suffered their Protractive Arts,
093:3,1104[A  ]| And strove by$4$ mildness to$9$ reduce their Hearts;
093:3,1105[A  ]| But they abused that$6#2$ Grace to$9$ make Allies,
093:3,1106[A  ]| And fondly closed with former Enemies;
093:3,1107[A  ]| For$3$ Fools are double Fools endeavouring to$9$ be wise.
093:3,1108[A  ]| After a grave Consult what course was best,
093:3,1109[A  ]| One more mature in$4$ Folly than the rest,
093:3,1110[A  ]| Stood up$5$, and told them, with his head aside,
093:3,1111[A  ]| That$3$ desperate Cures must be to$4$ desperate Ills applied:
093:3,1112[A  ]| And therefore since their main impending fear
093:3,1113[A  ]| Was from the increasing race of Chanticleer:
093:3,1114[A  ]| Some Potent Bird of Prey they ought to$9$ find,
093:3,1115[A  ]| A Foe professed to$4$ him, and all his kind:
093:3,1116[A  ]| Some haggared Hawk, who$6#1$ had her eyrie nigh,
093:3,1117[A  ]| Well pounced to$9$ fasten, and well winged to$9$ fly;
093:3,1118[A  ]| One they might trust, their common wrongs to$9$ wreak:
093:3,1119[A  ]| The Musquet, and the Coystrel were too weak,
093:3,1120[A  ]| Too fierce the Falcon, but above the rest,
093:3,1121[A  ]| The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best;
093:3,1122[A  ]| Of small Renown, it is true, for$3$ not to$9$ lie,
093:3,1123[A  ]| We call him but a Hawk by$4$ courtesy.
093:3,1124[A  ]| I know he haunts the Pigeon-House and Farm,
093:3,1125[A  ]| And more, in$4$ time of War, has done us harm;
093:3,1126[A  ]| But all his hate on$4$ trivial Points depends,
093:3,1127[A  ]| Give up$5$ our Forms, and we shall soon be friends
093:3,1128[A  ]| For$3$ Pigeons' flesh he seems not much to$9$ care,
093:3,1129[A  ]| Crammed Chickens are a more delicious fare;
093:3,1130[A  ]| On$4$ this high Potentate, without delay, 
093:3,1131[A  ]| I wish you would confer the Sovereign sway:
093:3,1132[A  ]| Petition him to$9$ accept the Government, 
093:3,1133[A  ]| And let a splendid Embassy be sent.
093:3,1134[A  ]| This pithy Speech prevailed, and all agreed,
093:3,1135[A  ]| Old Enmity's forgot, the Buzzard, should succeed.
093:3,1136[A  ]| Their welcome Suit was granted soon as heard,
093:3,1137[A  ]| His Lodgings furnished, and a Train prepared,
093:3,1138[A  ]| With B's upon$4$ their Breast, appointed for$4$ his Guard.
093:3,1139[A  ]| He came, and Crowned with great Solemnity,
093:3,1140[X  ]| God save King Buzzard, 
093:3,1140['  ]| was the general cry.
093:3,1141[A  ]| A Portly Prince, and goodly to$4$ the sight,
093:3,1142[A  ]| He seemed a Son of Anach for$4$ his height:
093:3,1143[A  ]| Like$4$ those whom stature did to$4$ Crowns prefer;
093:3,1144[A  ]| Black-browed, and bluff, like$4$ Homer's Jupiter:
093:3,1145[A  ]| Broad-backed, and Brawny built for$4$ Love's delight,
093:3,1146[A  ]| A prophet formed, to$9$ make a female Proselyte.
093:3,1147[A  ]| A Theologue more by$4$ need, than genial bent,
093:3,1148[A  ]| By$4$ Breeding sharp, by$4$ Nature confident.
093:3,1149[A  ]| Interest in$4$ all his Actions was discerned;
093:3,1150[A  ]| More learned than Honest, more a Wit than learned.
093:3,1151[A  ]| Or forced by$4$ Fear, or by$4$ his Profit led,
093:3,1152[A  ]| Or both conjoined, his Native clime he fled;
093:3,1153[A  ]| But brought the Virtues of his Heaven along,
093:3,1154[A  ]| A fair Behaviour, and a fluent Tongue:
093:3,1155[A  ]| And yet with all his Arts he could not thrive;
093:3,1156[A  ]| The most unlucky Parasite alive.
093:3,1157[A  ]| Loud Praises to$9$ prepare his Paths he sent,
093:3,1158[A  ]| And then himself pursued his Compliment:
093:3,1159[A  ]| But, by$4$ reverse Fortune chased away,
093:3,1160[A  ]| His Gifts no$2$ longer than their Author stay:
093:3,1161[A  ]| He shakes the Dust against the ungrateful race,
093:3,1162[A  ]| And leaves the stench of Ordures in$4$ the place.
093:3,1163[A  ]| Oft has he flattered, and blasphemed the same,
093:3,1164[A  ]| For$3$ in$4$ his Rage, he spares no$2$ Sovereign's name:
093:3,1165[A  ]| The Hero, and the Tyrant change their style
093:3,1166[A  ]| By$4$ the same measure that$6#1$ they frown or smile;
093:3,1167[A  ]| When well received by$4$ hospitable Foes,
093:3,1168[A  ]| The kindness he returns, is to$9$ expose:
093:3,1169[A  ]| For$3$ Courtesies, though undeserved and great,
093:3,1170[A  ]| No$2$ gratitude in$4$ Felon-minds beget,
093:3,1171[A  ]| As tribute to$4$ his Wit, the churl receives the treat.
093:3,1172[A  ]| His praise of Foes is venomously Nice,
093:3,1173[A  ]| So$5#2$ touched, it turns a Virtue to$4$ a Vice:
093:3,1174[A  ]| A Greek, and bountiful forewarns us twice. 
093:3,1175[A  ]| Seven Sacraments he wisely does disown,
093:3,1176[A  ]| Because he knows Confession stands for$4$ one;
093:3,1177[A  ]| Where Sins to$4$ sacred silence are conveyed,
093:3,1178[A  ]| And not for$4$ Fear, or Love, to$9$ be betrayed:
093:3,1179[A  ]| But he, uncalled, his Patron to$9$ control,
093:3,1180[A  ]| Divulged the secret whispers of his Soul:
093:3,1181[A  ]| Stood forth the accusing Satan of his Crimes,
093:3,1182[A  ]| And offered to$4$ the Moloch of the Times.
093:3,1183[A  ]| Prompt to$9$ assail, and careless of defence,
093:3,1184[A  ]| Invulnerable in$4$ his Impudence;
093:3,1185[A  ]| He dares the World, and eager of a name,
093:3,1186[A  ]| He thrusts about, and justles into fame.
093:3,1187[A  ]| Frontless, and Satire-proof he scours the streets,
093:3,1188[A  ]| And runs an Indian muck at all he meets.
093:3,1189[A  ]| So$5#1$ fond of loud Report, that$3$ not to$9$ miss
093:3,1190[A  ]| Of being known (his last and utmost bliss)
093:3,1191[A  ]| He rather would be known, for$4$ what he is.
093:3,1192[A  ]| Such was, and is the Captain of the Test,
093:3,1193[A  ]| Though half his Virtues are not here expressed;
093:3,1194[A  ]| The modesty of Fame conceals the rest.
093:3,1195[A  ]| The spleenful Pigeons never could create
093:3,1196[A  ]| A Prince more proper to$9$ revenge their hate:
093:3,1197[A  ]| Indeed, more proper to$9$ revenge, than save;
093:3,1198[A  ]| A King, whom in$4$ his wrath, the Almighty gave:
093:3,1199[A  ]| For$4$ all the Grace the Landlord had allowed,
093:3,1200[A  ]| But made the Buzzard and the Pigeons proud;
093:3,1201[A  ]| Gave time to$9$ fix their Friends, and to$9$ seduce the crowd.
093:3,1202[A  ]| They long their Fellow-Subjects to$9$ enthrall,
093:3,1203[A  ]| Their Patron's promise into question call,
093:3,1204[A  ]| And vainly think he meant to$9$ make them Lords of all.
093:3,1205[A  ]| False Fears their Leaders failed not to$9$ suggest,
093:3,1206[A  ]| As if the Doves were to$9$ be dispossessed;
093:3,1207[A  ]| Nor Sighs, nor Groans, nor goggling Eyes did want;
093:3,1208[A  ]| For$3$ now the Pigeons too had learned to$9$ Cant.
093:3,1209[A  ]| The House of Prayer is stocked with large increase;
093:3,1210[A  ]| Nor Doors, nor Windows can contain the Press:
093:3,1211[A  ]| For$3$ Birds of every feather fill the abode;
093:3,1212[A  ]| Even Atheists out of envy own a God:
093:3,1213[A  ]| And reeking from the Stews, Adulterers come,
093:3,1214[A  ]| Like$4$ Goths and Vandals to$9$ demolish Rome.
093:3,1215[A  ]| That$6#2$ Conscience which$6#1$ to$4$ all their Crimes was mute,
093:3,1216[A  ]| Now calls aloud, and cries to$9$ Persecute;
093:3,1217[A  ]| No$2$ rigour of the Laws to$9$ be released,
093:3,1218[A  ]| And much the less, because it was their Lord's request:
093:3,1219[A  ]| They thought it great their Sovereign to$9$ control,
093:3,1220[A  ]| And named their Pride, Nobility of Soul.
093:3,1221[A  ]| It is true, the Pigeons, and their Prince Elect
093:3,1222[A  ]| Were short of Power their purpose to$9$ effect:
093:3,1223[A  ]| But with their Quills, did all the hurt they could,
093:3,1224[A  ]| And cuffed the tender Chickens from their food:
093:3,1225[A  ]| And much the Buzzard in$4$ their Cause did stir,
093:3,1226[A  ]| Though naming not the Patron, to$9$ infer
093:3,1227[A  ]| With all respect, He was a gross Idolater.
093:3,1228[A  ]| But when the Imperial owner did espy
093:3,1229[A  ]| That$3$ thus they turned his Grace to$4$ villainy,
093:3,1230[A  ]| Not suffering wrath to$9$ discompose his mind,
093:3,1231[A  ]| He strove a temper for$4$ the extremes to$9$ find,
093:3,1232[A  ]| So$3$ to$9$ be just, as he might still be kind.
093:3,1233[A  ]| Then, all Maturely weighed, pronounced a Doom
093:3,1234[A  ]| Of Sacred Strength for$4$ every Age to$9$ come.
093:3,1235[A  ]| By$4$ this the Doves their Wealth and State possess,
093:3,1236[A  ]| No$2$ Rights infringed, but licence to$9$ oppress:
093:3,1237[A  ]| Such Power have they as Factious Lawyers long
093:3,1238[A  ]| To$4$ Crowns ascribed, that$3$ Kings can do no$2$ wrong
093:3,1239[A  ]| But, since His own Domestic Birds have tried
093:3,1240[A  ]| The dire Effects of their destructive Pride,
093:3,1241[A  ]| He deems that$6#2$ Proof a Measure to$4$ the rest,
093:3,1242[A  ]| Concluding well within his Kingly Breast,
093:3,1243[A  ]| His Fowl of Nature too unjustly were oppressed.
093:3,1244[A  ]| He therefore makes all Birds of every Sect
093:3,1245[A  ]| Free of his Farm, with promise to$9$ respect
093:3,1246[A  ]| Their several Kinds alike, and equally protect.
093:3,1247[A  ]| His Gracious Edict the same Franchise yields
093:3,1248[A  ]| To$4$ all the wild Increase of Woods and Fields,
093:3,1249[A  ]| And who$6#1$ in$4$ Rocks aloof, and who$6#1$ in$4$ Steeples builds:
093:3,1250[A  ]| To$4$ Crows the like$2$ Impartial Grace affords,
093:3,1251[A  ]| And Choughs and Daws,and such Republic Birds:
093:3,1252[A  ]| Secured with ample Privilege to$9$ feed,
093:3,1253[A  ]| Each has his District, and his Bounds decreed:
093:3,1254[A  ]| Combined in$4$ common Interest with his own,
093:3,1255[A  ]| But not to$9$ pass the Pigeons' Rubicon.
093:3,1256[A  ]| Here ends the Reign of this pretended Dove;
093:3,1257[A  ]| All Prophecies accomplished from above,
093:3,1258[A  ]| For$3$ Shiloh comes the Sceptre to$9$ Remove.
093:3,1259[A  ]| Reduced from Her Imperial High Abode,
093:3,1260[A  ]| Like$4$ Dionysius to$4$ a private Rod:
093:3,1261[A  ]| The Passive Church, that$6#1$ with pretended Grace
093:3,1262[A  ]| Did Her distictive Mark in$4$ Duty place,
093:3,1263[A  ]| Now Touched, Reviles Her Maker to$4$ his Face.
093:3,1264[A  ]| What after happened is not hard to$9$ guess;
093:3,1265[A  ]| The small Beginnings had a large Increase,
093:3,1266[A  ]| And Arts and Wealth succeed (the secret spoils of Peace.)
093:3,1267[A  ]| It is said the Doves repented, though too late,
093:3,1268[A  ]| Become the Smiths of their own Foolish Fate:
093:3,1269[A  ]| Nor did their Owner hasten their ill hour:
093:3,1270[A  ]| But, sunk in$4$ Credit, they decreased in$4$ Power:
093:3,1271[A  ]| Like$4$ Snows in$4$ warmth that$6#1$ mildly pass away,
093:3,1272[A  ]| Dissolving in$4$ the Silence of Decay.
093:3,1273[A  ]| The Buzzard not content with equal place,
093:3,1274[A  ]| Invites the feathered Nimrods of his Race,
093:3,1275[A  ]| To$9$ hide the thinness of their Flock from Sight,
093:3,1276[A  ]| And all together make a seeming, goodly Flight:
093:3,1277[A  ]| But each have separate Interests of their own,
093:3,1278[A  ]| Two Czars,are one too many for$4$ a Throne.
093:3,1279[A  ]| Nor can the Usurper long abstain from Food
093:3,1280[A  ]| Already he has tasted Pigeons' Blood:
093:3,1281[A  ]| And may be tempted to$4$ his former fare,
093:3,1282[A  ]| When this Indulgent Lord shall late to$4$ Heaven repair.
093:3,1283[A  ]| Bare benting times, and moulting Months may come,
093:3,1284[A  ]| When lagging late, they cannot reach their home:
093:3,1285[A  ]| Or Rent in$4$ Schism, (for$3$ so$5#2$ their Fate decrees,)
093:3,1286[A  ]| Like$4$ the Tumultuous College of the Bees:
093:3,1287[A  ]| They fight their Quarrel, by$4$ themselves oppressed,
093:3,1288[A  ]| The Tyrant smiles below, and waits the falling feast.
093:3,1289['  ]| Thus did the gentle Hind her fable end,
093:3,1290['  ]| Nor would the Panther blame it, nor commend;
093:3,1291['  ]| But, with affected Yawnings at the close,
093:3,1292['  ]| Seemed to$9$ require her natural repose.
093:3,1293['  ]| For$3$ now the streaky light began to$9$ peep;
093:3,1294['  ]| And setting stars admonished both to$9$ sleep.
093:3,1295['  ]| The Dame withdrew, and, wishing to$4$ her Guest
093:3,1296['  ]| The peace of Heaven, betook herself to$9$ rest.
093:3,1297['  ]| Ten thousand Angels on$4$ her slumbers wait
093:3,1298['  ]| With glorious Visions of her future state.