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PROLOGUE.
A man would think we have been fairly taughtWhat reformation pure Rebellion wrought:
Yet some (like him who his own Name forgot)
Troad the same steps again, and knew it not;
Ne're minding what those brainsick gulls endure,
Who run to ill prepared steel for cure.
Else why do they for Populacy dispute,
Which makes Dominion a meer prostitute?
To slaves by Nature, who will share the state,
By Number valuing Reason, not by weight?
Such Form's more apt 'mong those low souls to stand,
Where Providence has levell'd all their land.
But Jealousys false mirror represents
Monarchs in such misshapen lineaments,
That subjects led by their deluded sence,
Turn self-destroyers in their own defence.
War's the worst Judgement; Then how barbarous are
They who entail on all perpetual War!
Wherefore the time's too fit to bring in sight
Some venom'd with this wild disease, to fright
Th'Age from Relapse; That if spiritual Actors
(Wise Hypocrites) profane the stage, being factors
There for fanatic ends; It may be found,
Whom Pulpits poyson can from Plays grow sound.
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