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CANTO I.] Enough at once to lie at stake For Cov'nant, and the Cause's sake? But in that quarrel dogs and bears, As well as we, must venture theirs? This feud, by Jesuits invented, By evil counsel is fomented; There is a Machiavelian plot, Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not; A deep design in't, to divide The well-affected that confide, By setting brother against brother To claw and curry one another. Have we not enemies plus satis, That cane et angue pejus hate us? And shall we turn our fangs and claws Upon our own selves, without cause? That some occult design doth lie In bloody cynarctomachy, Is plain enough to him that knows How saints lead brothers by the nose. I wish myself a pseudo-prophet, But sure some mischief will come of it,