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Each Jehu lashing on with furious force,
That Turk or Jew cou'd not have us'd it worse.
No matter what dissention leaders make
Where ev'ry private man may save a stake;
Rul'd by the Scripture and his own advice
Each has a blind-by-path to Paradise;
Where driving in a Circle slow or fast,
Opposing Sects are sure to meet at last.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$A wondrous charity you have in Store
For all reform'd to pass the narrow Door:
So much, that Mahomet had scarcely more.
For he, kind Prophet, was for damning none,
But Christ and Moyses were to save their own:
Himself was to secure his chosen race,
Though reason good for Turks to take the place,
And he allowed to be the better Man
In virtue of his holier Alcoran.

 True, said the Panther, I shall ne'er deny
My Breth'ren may be sav'd as well as I:

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