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THE EMBLEM.
See where they've set Sacheverell up,—Betwixt the devil and the pope.
They call'd him “cruel and uncivil”
For dooming Low-Church to the devil;
“Uncharitable,” when he said
Peter and Jack a league had made:
And yet their wise retaliation
Returns the railing accusation.
They've dress'd him up in fireworks, too;
As moderate Nero used to do
With Christians that, like him, were true:
And while their emblem would condemn
The picture he has drawn of them,
Their moderation's known to be,
Not calmness, but hypocrisy.
643
To prove the doctor's sermon true:
Only with this small alteration,—
“This picture a rebuke to passion,
Design'd and drawn by moderation!”
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