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Unhealthy Mattins wisely they decline,
And substitute a Journeyman-Divine.

When Discord rose a squalid guilty Shade,
Black as her Crimes, in sable Night array'd;
Soft Peace with Horror view'd the Ghastly Spright,
And trembling fled her inauspicious Sight:
The livid Fury her dire Course had run,
From Church to Church her Visitation gone;
Then at the noisy Hall's litigious Bar
She stop'd, and smil'd to see the pleasing War;
Contemplating her growing Power the stood,
And breath'd Contention on the jarring Croud.
In countless Shoals her faithful ^[1]Normans flow;
Normans whose Breasts perpetual Tempests blow:
Squadrons of Lawyers here, drive o'er the Plain,
And Clients there, the dreadful Charge sustain:

1. Litigious 10 a Proverb.

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