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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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Hypocricy.

Hypocrites in Religion form a Plan
That makes them hateful both to God and Man:
By seeming Zeal they lose the World's Esteem,—
And God's, because they are not what they seem.