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A Collection of, &c.
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 Matrix
Sprung 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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