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32 As he believed h' was bound to do In conscience, and commission too; And therefore thus bespoke the Squire:—
 * We that are wisely mounted higher

Than constables, in curule wit, When on tribunal bench we sit, Like speculators, should foresee, From Pharos of authority, Portended mischiefs farther than Low proletarian tything-men: And therefore being inform'd by bruit, That dog and bear are to dispute; For so of late men fighting name, Because they often prove the same; For where the first does hap to be, The last does coincidere. Quantum in nobis, have thought good To save th' expense of Christian blood, And try if we, by mediation Of treaty, and accommodation, Can end the quarrel, and compose The bloody duel without blows.
 * Are not our liberties, our lives,

The laws, religion, and our wives,