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 Our brethren of New England use Choice malefactors to excuse, And hang the guiltless in their stead, Of whom the churches have less need. As lately 't happen'd: in a town There liv'd a cobler, and but one, That out of doctrine could cut use, And mend men's lives as well as shoes. This precious brother having slain, In times of peace, an Indian, Not out of malice, but mere zeal, Because he was an infidel, The mighty Tottipottimoy Sent to our elders an envoy, Complaining sorely of the breach Of league, held forth by brother Patch, Against the articles in force Between both churches, his and ours; For which he crav'd the saints to render Into his hands, or hang th' offender: But they maturely having weigh'd They had no more but him o' th' trade; A man that serv'd them in a double Capacity, to teach and cobble; Resolv'd to spare him: yet to do The Indian Hoghan Moghan too