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From glistering semblances of piety;

But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,

Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,

Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.

If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus

Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,

He might return to vasty Tartar back,

And tell the legions, 'I can never win

A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'

O! how hast thou with jealousy infected

The sweetness of affiance. Show men dutiful?

Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?

Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?

Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?

Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,

Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,

Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,

Not working with the eye without the ear,

And but in purged judgment trusting neither?

Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:

And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,

To mark the full-fraught man and best indu'd

With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;

For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like

Another fall of man. Their faults are open:

Arrest them to the answer of the law;

And God acquit them of their practices!

 117 glistering: glittering

118 temper'd: moulded (to his purpose)

stand up; cf. n.

119 instance: motive

123 Tartar: Tartarus (the classical hell)

126 jealousy: suspicion

127 affiance: trust

Show: appear

133 blood: passion

134 complement: external appearance

136 but in purged judgment: except after careful scrutiny

137 bolted: sifted; i.e., tested

139 full-fraught: fully laden (with virtues)

best indu'd: most richly endowed 