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The Hind and the Panther.
But Piety commands me to refrain;
Those Pray'rs are needless in this Monarch's Reign.
Behold! how he protects your Friends opprest,
Receives the Banish'd, succours the Distress'd:
Behold, for you may read an honest open Breast.
He stands in Day-light, and disdains to hide
An Act to which, by Honour he is ty'd
A generous, laudable, and Kingly Pride.
Your Test he would repeal, his Peers restore,
This when he says he means, he means no more.
Those Pray'rs are needless in this Monarch's Reign.
Behold! how he protects your Friends opprest,
Receives the Banish'd, succours the Distress'd:
Behold, for you may read an honest open Breast.
He stands in Day-light, and disdains to hide
An Act to which, by Honour he is ty'd
A generous, laudable, and Kingly Pride.
Your Test he would repeal, his Peers restore,
This when he says he means, he means no more.
Well, said the Panther, I believe him just,
And yet———
And yet———
And yet, 'tis but because you must,
You would be trusted, but you would not trust.
The Hind thus briefly; and disdain'd t' inlarge
On Pow'r of Kings, and their Superiour charge,
You would be trusted, but you would not trust.
The Hind thus briefly; and disdain'd t' inlarge
On Pow'r of Kings, and their Superiour charge,
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