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CANTO I.] As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies: In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss: More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick: That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way: Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to: Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite. The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for. Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow: All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin: Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly;