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Reason by sense no more can understand;
The game is played into another hand.
Why chose we then like bilanders to creep
Along the coast, and land in view to keep,
When safely we may launch into the deep?
In the same vessel which our Savior bore,
Himself the pilot, let us leave the shore, 132
And with a better guide a better world ex-
plore.

Could he his godhead veil with flesh and blood

And not veil these again to be our food?

His grace in both is equal in extent; 136 The first affords us life, the second nourishment.

And if he can, why all this frantic pain

To construe what his clearest words contain,

And make a riddle what he made so plain? To take up half on trust and half to try, 141 Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call

To pay great sums and to compound the small,

For who would break with Heaven, and Iwould not break for all?

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185 From Moses' hand the sovereign sway to wrest,

And Aaron of his ephod to divest;
Till opening earth made way for all to

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And stand, like Adam, naming every beast, Were weary work; nor will the Muse describe

A slimy-born and sun-begotten tribe, Who, far from steeples and their sacred sound,

In fields their sullen conventicles found. 240 These gross, half-animated lumps I leave, Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive.

But if they think at all, 't is sure no higher Than matter put in motion may aspire; Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay,

So drossy, so divisible are they

As would but serve pure bodies for allay,

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our countrymen, under the happy conduct of his royal highness, went breaking, by little and little, into the line of the enemies, the noise of the cannon from both navies reached our ears about the city; so that all men being alarmed with it, and in a dreadful suspense of the event, which they knew was then deciding, every one went following the sound as his fancy led him. And leaving the town almost empty, some took towards the Park, some cross the river, others down it; all seeking the noise in the depth of silence.

Among the rest, it was the fortune of Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius, and Neander, to be in company together: three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chosen to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.

Taking then a barge, which a servant of Lisideius had provided for them, they made haste to shoot the bridge, and left behind them that great fall of waters which hindered them from hearing what they desired; after which, having disenvessels gaged themselves from many which rode at anchor in the Thames, and almost blocked up the passage towards Greenwich, they ordered the watermen to let fall their oars more gently; and then every one favoring his own curiosity with a strict silence, it was not long ere they perceived the air to break about them like the noise of distant thunder, or of swallows in a chimney: those little undulations of sound, though almost vanishing before they reached them, yet still seeming to retain somewhat of their first horror which they had betwixt the fleets.

After they had attentively listened till such time as the sound by little and little went from them, Eugenius, lifting up his head, and taking notice of it, was the first who congratulated to the rest that happy omen of our nation's victory: adding, that we had but this to desire in confirmation of it, that we might hear no more of that noise which was now leaving the English coast.

When the rest had concurred in the same opinion, Crites (a person of a sharp judgment, and somewhat a too delicate taste in wit, which the world

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