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BOOK II. Compton, and Granvill, dauntless Sons of Mars, Fit Themes of endless Grief, but that we view Their Virtues yet surviving in their Race! Can we forget, how the mad, headstrong Rout Defy'd their Prince to Arms, nor made account Of Faith, or Duty, or Allegiance sworn? Apostate, Atheist Rebells! bent to Ill, With seeming Sanctity, and cover'd Fraud, Instill'd by him, who first presum'd t' oppose Omnipotence; alike their Crime, th'Event Was not alike; these triumph'd, and in height Of barbarous Malice, and insulting Pride, Abstain'd not from Imperial Bloud. O Fact Unparallel'd! O Charles! O Best of Kings! What Stars their black, disastrous Influence shed On Thy Nativity, that Thou shou'dst fall Thus, by inglorious Hands, in this Thy Realm, Supreme, and Innocent, adjudg'd to Death Rh