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2422.

[Do ye not still, ye ruling men]

If we this day be examined of the good deed, &c. —iv. 9.

Do ye not still, ye ruling men,
Permit that open vice should reign,
And courtly wickedness;
Yet while the evil is allow'd,
Ye turn your zeal against the good,
And all its friends oppress.
Ye now into our deeds inquire,
Not through a laudable desire
To praise and imitate,
But matter of offence to find,
(With sin, the world, and Satan join'd,)
And blast the good ye hate.