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CANTO III.] And vended here among the rabble, For staple goods, and warrantable? Like money by the Druids borrow'd, In th' other world to be restored. Quoth Sidrophel, To let you know You wrong the art and artists too: Since arguments are lost on those That do our principles oppose, I will, altho' I've don't before. Demonstrate to your sense once more, And draw a figure that shall tell you What you, perhaps, forget befell you; By way of horary inspection, Which some account our worst erection. With that, he circles draws, and squares, With cyphers, astral characters, Then looks 'em o'er to understand 'em, Altho' set down hab-nab at random. Quoth he. This scheme of th' heavens set, Discovers how in fight you met, At Kingston, with a may-pole idol, And that y' were bang'd both back and side well;