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2938.

[The witnesses who cried so loud]

Who ought to have been here before thee, and, &c. —xxiv. 19.

The witnesses who cried so loud,
Demanding succour of the crowd,
All parties if the judge will hear,
They think it time to disappear:
Fierce zealots thus in every age
Against the real Christian rage,
But shrink, abscond, and stand aloof,
When magistrates require the proof.