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Book II. And Milbourn chief, deputed by the rest, Gave him the cassock, surcingle, and vest. "Receive (he said) these robes which once were mine, "Dulness is sacred in a sound divine." He ceas'd, and spread the robe; the crowd confess The rev'rend Flamen in his lengthen'd dress. Around him wide a sable Army stand, A low-born, cell-bred, selfish, servile band, Prompt or to guard or stab, to saint or damn, Heav'n's Swiss, who fight for any God, or Man.