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218 Do not our great reformers use This Sidrophel to forebode news; To write of victories next year, And castles taken, yet i' th' air? Of battles fought at sea, and ships Sunk, two years hence? the last eclipse? A total o'erthrow giv'n the king In Cornwall, horse and foot, next spring? And has not he point-blank foretold Whats'e'er the close committee would? Made Mars and Saturn for the Cause, The moon for Fundamental Laws, The Ram, the Bull, the Croat, declare Against the book of Common Prayer? The Scorpion take the Protestation, And Bear engage for Reformation? Made all the royal stars recant, Compound, and take the Covenant? Quoth Hudibras, The case is clear The saints may employ a conjurer, As thou hast prov'd it by their practice; No argument like matter of fact is: And we are best of all led to Men's principles, by what they do.