PART III. SECOND CANTO. The Argument. The Saints engage in fierce contests Part 3. Canto 2. Line 1497. 1.Res sculp. HUDI BRAS. CANTO II. THE learned write, an insect breeze Is but a mongrel prince of bees, And stings the founders of his house; 5 So, ere the storm of war broke out, Upon their mothers got their fons, 10 That were incapable t' enjoy 15 That empire any other way; So Prefbyter begot the other Upon the good old caufe, his mother, 20 For when they thriv'd they never fadg'd, Like dogs that fnarl about a bone, Of zeal and plunder, to grow flack; That us'd to urge the brethren on; That what by breaking them they 'ad gain'd, By their fupport might be maintain’d; |