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It conquers the Crown too, the Furs and the Gown too,This ſet up a Presbyter, and this pull’d him down too;This ſubtil Deceiver, turn’d Bonnet to Beaver,Down drops a Biſhop, and up ſtarts a Weaver.
This fits a Lay-man to Preach and to pray Man,’Tis this can make a Lord of him that was a Dray-man;Forth from the dull Pit, of Follies full pit;This brought an Hebrew Iron-monger to the Pulpit:Such pittiful Things be, more happier then Kings be;This got the Heraldry of Thimblebee and Slingsbee;No Goſpel can guide it, no Law can decide it,In Church or State, until the Sword hath ſanctify’d it.
Down goes the Law-tricks, for from that MatrixSprung holy Hewſon’s Power, and tumbled down St. Patrick’s.The Sword prevails ſo highly in Wales too,Shinkin ap Powel cries, and ſwears Cuts-plutter a-nails, too;In Scotland this Waſter, did make ſuch Diſaſter,They ſent their Money back for which they ſold their Maſter;

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