And spurn'd her mitre, and defiled her gown;
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We would have trodden low both bench and stall,
Nor left a tithe remaining, great or small."
Let us be serious.—Should such trials come,
Are they themselves prepared for martyrdom?
It seems to us that our reformers knew
Th' important work they undertook to do;
An equal priesthood they were loth to try,
Lest zeal and care should with ambition die;