Where let us leave 'em for a time,

And to their churches turn our rhyme;

To hold forth their declining state,

Which now come near an even rate.

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PART III.

SECOND CANTO.

The Argument.

The Saints engage in fierce contefts
About their carnal interefts,
To share their facrilegious preys
According to their rates of grace:
Their various frenzies to reform,
When Cromwell left them in a form ;
Till, in th' effige of Rumps, the rabble
Burn all their grandees of the cabal.