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Emblem. 83. Hæresium contagium.

D. Vaughan, Pastori Dunmoensi.

The translation.

Revel.9.3,4.

The Locusts swarme in number great,
The goodly corne they spoyle for meat,
The fields erst greene they euill intreat,
and make them voyd.
These little beasts, an hurtfull kind
The East brought forth that hurtfull wind,
While it doth blow, they are left behind
th'earth is anoyd.
The heretiques these locusts are,
Which nothing doe the greene corne spare,
With heresie they spill and marre
the whole land:
Satan did hatch these in his nest,
As those which serue that popish beast,
Monks, Friers, Iesuites with the rest
of that cursed band.