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The Eggs of Pride thus sat on, out do flur
The bub: of Schisms, birds with bill and spur
In hawks and Ravens nests hatch, Cocks full keen
Do peck out one anothers brains in Spleen.
Phocas made Romes so sharp she up doth rise
And out doth peck Constantinople's eyes
(The Adnates of the Universall Ball)
Them Swallows down, and thus Crows over all.
Hence sharp Contentions, 'twixt these seats, and jars.
They at it tooth and naile. Thus fight the Stars.

Heraclius the Emperour did hap
Contentions in the East and West to tap.
Which tap for two and forty years did run,
Before the running of this tap was done.
For meeting Athanase the Jacobite
At Hierople a full Crafty waite,
He would him Bishop make of Antioch
If he Chalcedoes faith did hold, then spoke
The Crafty Fox, I do profess, saith hee
Two natures in one Christ united bee.
But pardon me great Sir; how are his Wills
And Operations (touching which greate quills
Puke ink apace) to be Esteemd, I pray
Double or Single? Th'Emperour doth lay
The Answer out for Cyrus Phasalis
And Sergy of Constantinopoles
Who do reply One Will, and Operation
In Christ is found. Rome frowns on this Relation
Then Cyrus, spite of Rome, that broacht this fray,
Is bishop made of Alexandria.
But now to damp the fire, they out do fling
Two natures joind, one Will, and Works out bring.
The Jacobites, and Theodosians leap
At this. And say the game is ours, good cheap.
For if One Will, and Work, then Nature's one
In Christ. Whereat Jerusalem's Sophrone
Is startled and rebukes th'Assertion such.
Sergy, who liked it, seems at it to grudge.
As new, unusuall, willing too to smother
Both one and two in Christ, one and the other.
Writes to the Roman Pope to put a bar
Unto Sophrone, that he no further jar.
Sophrone goes on; a Synod calls condemns
Monothelites: and Synods Letter sends,
To Sergy who doth Cyrus part mentain.
And to Pope John, who calls up for the same
A Synod and Condemns Monothelites
So do the Africans, and Asian Lights.
Pyrrhus succeedeth Sergy in his place,
And Errour too: and then to Rome did pace
Recants his note, doth to Ravenna go,
And to't again, then is outchurcht also.
Paul him succeeds and's of his Errour heir.
Pope Martin therefore doth for him prepare
For Cyrus too and Pyrrhus, fivescore ten
Insynoded, and doth outchurch these men.

Rotharis Lombards King deemd that it made
Much to impoverish his nations trade
That Pope, and Hexarch, and the Orthodox
So well agreed, did issue from his box
A Law, that each Church in his Realm mentain,
Two bishops. One to preach the Arrian strain,
And one the Doctrine Orthodox. And so
All the Italian Churches strangly show.

When Aquileia's Patrarchy was passt
To Grade, the Lombards angry do in hast
Ordain one Fortunate an Arrian there
Bishop of Aquileia (the King were
Consenting there unto) who by strong hand
Whips unto Grade, their temple plunders and
Whips all to Aquileia. Now the Pope
Honorius, offended, Cries a Rope
Take Fortunate, and him from's state deposd,
And on Primogeny that See's imposd.
The Lombards made here at, plunder and stroy
At Grade thines Sacred, and prophane. Oh fy!