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 OR who can longer hold? when every press, The bar and pulpit too, has broke the peace? When every scribbling fool at the alarms Has drawn his pen, and rises up in arms? And not a dull pretender of the town, But vents his gall in pamphlet up and down? When all with licence rail, and who will not, Must be almost suspected of the plot, And bring his zeal or else his parts in doubt? In vain our preaching tribe attack the foes, In vain their weak artillery oppose;