Profanely for th' apocryphal,

False heav'n at the end o' th' hall;

Whither, it was decreed by fate,

His precious reliques to translate :

So Romulus was feen before

B' as orthodox a fenator,

From whofe divine illumination

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He stole the pagan revelation.

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Next him his fon, and heir apparent

Succeeded, tho' a lame vicegerent,

Who first laid by the parliament;
The only crutch on which he leant,
And then funk underneath the state,

That rode him above horfeman's weight,

And now the faints began their reign, For which they'd yearn'd fo long in vain, And felt such bowel-hankerings,

To fee an empire, all of kings,

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Deliver'd from th' Egyptian awe

Of justice, government, and law,

And free t' erect what spiritual cantons
Should be reveal'd, or gospel Hans-towns.
To edify upon the ruins

Of John of Leyden's old outgoings,
Who for a weather-cock hung up
Upon their mother-church's top,
Was made a type by providence,
Of all their revelations fince,
And now fulfill'd by his fucceffors,

Who equally mistook their measures ;
For when they came to shape the model,
Not one could fit another's noddel;
But found their light and gifts more wide
From fadging, than th' unsanctify'd,
While ev'ry individual brother

Strove hand to fist against another,

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And still the maddeft, and moft crackt,
Were found the bufieft to tranfact;

For tho' most hands dispatch apace,

And make light work, the proverb says,
Yet many diff'rent intellects

Are found t' have contrary effects ;
And many heads t' obstruct intrigues,
As flowest infects have moft legs.

Some were for setting up a king,
But all the reft for no fuch thing,
Unless king Jefus : others tamper't

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Some for the rump, and some more crafty,
For agitators, and the safety ;

Some for the gospel, and maffacres
Of spiritual affidavit-makers,

That fwore to any human regence

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Oaths of fuprem'cy and allegiance;

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not had the Saints began their Reig Unle King Jefus:Others tamperd and felt such and a long in vain For Fleetwood, Defborough,&Lambert To see an Empire all of Kingsing, and some agath Agyptian Bondage Hankerings, Jome for Rump, & some more craf Tome were for setting up For Agitators and the Safety; But all the rest for no such thing of Holy Days and paying Poundage

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