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Such Doctrines in the Pigeon-house were taught,You need not ask how wondrously they wrought;But sure the common Cry was all for theseWhose Life, and Precept both encourag'd Ease.Yet fearing those alluring Baits might fail,And Holy Deeds o're all their Arts prevail:(For Vice, tho' frontless, and of harden'd FaceIs daunted at the sight of awfull Grace)$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$An hideous Figure of their Foes they drew,Nor Lines, nor Looks, nor Shades, nor Colours true;And this Grotesque design, expos'd to Publick view.$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$One would have thought it an Ægyptian Piece,With Garden-Gods, and barking Deities,More thick than Ptolomey has stuck the Skies.All so perverse a Draught, so far unlike,It was no Libell where it meant to strike:Yet still the daubing pleas'd, and Great and SmallTo view the Monster crowded Pigeon-hall.

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