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14 Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got th' advowson of his conscience. Thus was he gifted and accouter'd. We mean on th' inside, not the outward: That next of all we shall discuss; Then listen, Sirs, it followeth thus: His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face; In cut and dye so like a tile. A sudden view it would beguile; The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange, mixt with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns; With grisly type did represent Declining age of government.