Who, 'twixt your inward fenfe and outward,

Are worse, than if y' had none, accoutred.
I grant all courses are in vain,

Unless we can get in again :

:

The only way that's left us now,
But all the difficulty's, how?

'Tis true we've money, th' only pow'r
That all mankind falls down before ;
Money, that, like the fwords of kings
Is the last reason of all things;
And therefore need not doubt our play
Has all advantages that way;
As long as men have faith to sell,
And meet with those that can pay well;
Whose half-ftarv'd pride and avarice,
One church and state will not fuffice
T'expose to fale; befides the wages
Of storing plagues to after ages.

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Nor is our money lefs our own,
Than 'twas before we laid it down;
For 'twill return, and turn t' account,
If we are brought in play upon't,
Or but, by cafting knaves, get in,
What pow'r can hinder us to win?
We know the arts we us'd before,

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1345

In peace and war, and fomething more,

And by th' unfortunate events,

Can mend our next experiments :

For when we 're taken into trust ;

How easy are the wifeft chous'd?

Who fee but th' outfides of our feats,
And not their secret springs and weights;
And while they're busy, at their ease,
Can carry what designs we please?
How easy is't to serve for agents,

To prosecute our old engagements ?

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1355

To keep the good old cause on foot,
And prefent pow'r from taking root;
Inflame them both with falfe alarms

Of plots and parties taking arms;

To keep the nation's wounds too wide

From healing up of fide to fide;
Profefs the paffionat'st concerns,
For both their interests by turns,
The only way t' improve our own,
By dealing faithfully with none;
As bowls run true, by being made
On purpose false, and to be sway'd;
For if we should be true to either,
'Twould turn us out of both together;
And therefore have no other means

To stand upon our own defence,
But keeping up our ancient party
In vigour, confident and hearty:

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To reconcile our late diffenters,

Our brethren, tho' by other venters;
Unite them, and their different maggots,
As long and short sticks are in faggots,
And make them join again as close,
As when they first began t' espouse:
Erect them into separate

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1380

New Jewish tribes in church and state;
To join in marriage and commerce,
And only 'mong themselves converse,

And all that are not of their mind,

1385

Make enemies to all mankind:

Take all religions in, and stickle

From conclave down to conventicle;

Agreeing still or disagreeing,

According to the light in being,
Sometimes for liberty of confcience,
And spiritual mifrule in one sense;

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But in another quite contrary,

As difpenfations chance to vary;

And stand for, as the times will bear it,

1395

Protect their emiffaries, empower'd

All contradictions of the spirit:

To preach sedition, and the word;

And when they're hamper'd by the laws:
Release the lab'rers for the cause,

And turn the perfecution back,

On thofe that made the firft attack,

To keep them equally in awe

From breaking, or maintaining law :

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And when they have their fits too foon, 1405 Before the full-tides of the moon,

Put off their zeal t' a fitter season,

For fowing faction in and treason;

And keep them hooded, and their churches,

Like hawks, from baiting on their perches; 1410