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CANTO II.] So th' ancient Stoics in the Porch, With fierce dispute maintain'd their church, Beat out their brains in fight and study, To prove that virtue is a body; That bonum is an animal, Made good with stout polemic brawl; In which some hundreds on the place Were slain outright, and many a face Retrench'd of nose, and eyes, and beard, To maintain what their sect averr'd. All which the Knight and Squire in wrath, Had like t' have suffer'd for their faith; Each striving to make good his own, As by the sequel shall be shown. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn;