74
SATYR.
By which the World's corrupted, and reclaim'd,
Hopes to be sav'd, and studies to be damn'd;
85 That reconciles all Contrarieties,
Makes Wisdom Foolishness, and Folly wise,
Imposes on Divinity, and sets
Her Seal alike on Truths, and Counterfeits;
Alters all Characters of Virtue and Vice,
90 And passes one for th' other in Disguise,
Makes all Things, as it pleases, understood,
The Good receiv'd for Bad, and Bad for Good;
That slyly counter-changes Wrong and Right,
Like white in Fields of black, and black in white,[1]
95 As if the Laws of Nature had been made
Of purpose, only to be disobey'd;
Or Man had lost his mighty Interest,
By having been distinguish'd from a Beast;
Hopes to be sav'd, and studies to be damn'd;
85 That reconciles all Contrarieties,
Makes Wisdom Foolishness, and Folly wise,
Imposes on Divinity, and sets
Her Seal alike on Truths, and Counterfeits;
Alters all Characters of Virtue and Vice,
90 And passes one for th' other in Disguise,
Makes all Things, as it pleases, understood,
The Good receiv'd for Bad, and Bad for Good;
That slyly counter-changes Wrong and Right,
Like white in Fields of black, and black in white,[1]
95 As if the Laws of Nature had been made
Of purpose, only to be disobey'd;
Or Man had lost his mighty Interest,
By having been distinguish'd from a Beast;
- ↑ 93, 94. That slyly counter-changes wrong and right,—Like white in Fields of black, and black in white.] Counter-chang'd in Heraldry is, when there is a mutual changing of the Colours of the Field and Charge in an Escutcheon, by means of one or more Lines of Partition. Thus in the Coat of the famous Chaucer: He beareth Party per Pale Argent and Gules, a Bend counter-chang'd; that is, that Part of the Bend, which is in that Side of the Escutcheon which is Argent, is Gules; and that Part of it which is on the other, is Argent. {{float right|See Chambers's Dictionary
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