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And did in either Case Injustice show,
Here sav'd a Friend, there Triumph'd o'er a Foe.
Then Old Mysterio shook his Silver Hairs,
Loaded with Learning, Prophecy, and Years,
Whom Factious Zeal to fierce Unchristian Strife,
Had hurry'd in the last Extream of Life.
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When Nature whispers Men to Crown their Days
With sweet Retirement and Religious Peace!
Fore-knowledge struggled in his heaving Breast,
E'er he in these dark Terms his Fears exprest.
The Stars rowl adverse, and malignant shine,
Some dire Portent! Some Comet I divine!
I plainly in the Revelations find,
That A———to the Beast will be inclin'd.