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 To bind the demon."—Other texts there be, Whereon a learned preacher may discourse, And this conjuncture would have magnified Their value and enhanced their interest, As: "Is man twofold?"—Or: "Do God's angels, When they do come among us, change their shape?"— Or: "What would happen if, true dogmatists, The Whiggamoors were Antipædobaptists?" These texts are comprehensible, at least. Such themes as these, and twenty others, too, You might discuss to this intelligent And great and pious people, for their good. It wearies me to hear these pedants preach, Talk through the nose, and praise in the same tone The sun and moon and my lord Eglinton! Begone!

My lord, the prisoners.