BOOK THE NINTH.
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"But who are these,"
The Maid exclaim'd, "That robed in flowing lawn,
And mitred, or in scarlet, and in caps
Like Cardinals, I see in every ward 660
Performing menial service at the beck
Of all who bid them?"
Theodore replied,
"These men are they who in the name of Christ
Did heap up wealth, and arrogating power,
Did make men bow the knee, and call themselves 665
Most Reverend Graces and Right Reverend Lords:
They dwelt in palaces, in purple cloathed,
And in fine linen: therefore are they here;
And tho' they would not minister on earth,
Here penanced they perforce must minister: 670
For he, the lowly man of Nazareth,
Hath said, his kingdom is not of the world."
The Maid exclaim'd, "That robed in flowing lawn,
And mitred, or in scarlet, and in caps
Like Cardinals, I see in every ward 660
Performing menial service at the beck
Of all who bid them?"
Theodore replied,
"These men are they who in the name of Christ
Did heap up wealth, and arrogating power,
Did make men bow the knee, and call themselves 665
Most Reverend Graces and Right Reverend Lords:
They dwelt in palaces, in purple cloathed,
And in fine linen: therefore are they here;
And tho' they would not minister on earth,
Here penanced they perforce must minister: 670
For he, the lowly man of Nazareth,
Hath said, his kingdom is not of the world."
So saying on they past, and now arrived
Where such a hideous ghastly groupe abode,
Where such a hideous ghastly groupe abode,
That
