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Shall then the testament award the right?
No, that's the Hungary for which they fight;
The field of battel, subject of debate;
The thing contended for, the fair estate.
The sense is intricate, 'tis onely clear
What vowels and what consonants are there.
Therefore 'tis plain, its meaning must be try'd
Before some judge appointed to decide.

Suppose, (the fair Apostate said,) I grant,
The faithfull flock some living guide should want,
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Your arguments an endless chase persue:
Produce this vaunted Leader to our view,
This mighty Moyses of the chosen crew.

The Dame, who saw her fainting foe retir'd,
With force renew'd, to victory aspir'd;
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$(And looking upward to her kindred sky,
As once our Saviour own'd his Deity,
Pronounc'd his words—she whom ye seek am I.)

Nor