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Scen. 4.

Enter Flowrdew and Bird.
Flow.
This ignorance even makes religion sin,
Sets zeale upon the rack, and stretches her
Beyond her length—Most blessed Looking-glasse
That didst instruct my blinded eyes to day,
I might have gone to hell the Narrow-way!

Bird.
Hereafter I will visit Comedies,
And see them oft, they are good exercises!—
I'le teach devotion now a milder temper,
Not that it shall loose any of her heat
Or Purity, but henceforth shall be such
As shall burne bright although not blaze so much.

Exeunt.