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CANTO III.] More haughty and severe in's place Than Gregory and Boniface. Such church must, surely, be a monster With many heads: for if we conster What in th' Apocalypse we find, According to th' Apostle's mind, 'Tis that the Whore of Babylon, With many heads, did ride upon; Which heads denote the sinful tribe Of deacon, priest, lay-elder, scribe. Lay-elder, Simeon to Levi, Whose little finger is as heavy As loins of patriarchs, prince-prelate, And bishop-secular. This zealot Is of a mungrel, diverse kind, Cleric before, and lay behind; A lawless linsey-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another;