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CANTO II.] With papers in their hats, that show'd As if they to the pillory rode? Have all these courses, these efforts, Been try'd by people of all sorts, Velis et remis, omnibus nervis, And all t' advance the Cause's service, And shall all now be thrown away In petulant intestine fray? Shall we, that in the Cov'nant swore, Each man of us to run before Another still in Reformation, Give dogs and bears a dispensation? How will dissenting brethren relish it? What will Malignants say? videlicet, That each man swore to do his best, To damn and perjure all the rest; And bid the devil take the hin'most. Which at this race is like to win most. They'll say, our bus'ness to reform The Church and State is but a worm; For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, T' an unknown Church's discipline, What is it else, but, before-hand, T' engage, and after understand? For when we swore to carry on The present Reformation, According to the purest mode Of Churches best reform'd abroad, What did we else but make a vow To do, we knew not what, nor how?