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In angry speech, they blame the carnal tie,
Which pure Religion lost her spirit by;
What time from prisons, flames, and tortures led,
She slumber'd careless in a royal bed;
To make, they add, the Churches' glory shine.
Should Diocletian reign, not Constantine.
"In pomp," they cry, "is England's Church array'd;
Her cool reformers wrought like men afraid.
We would have pull'd her gorgeous temples down,