What all but fools, by common sense, may know:

If true succession from our isle should fail,

And crowds profane, with impious arms, prevail,

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{ Not thou, nor those thy factious arts engage,

{ Shall reap that harvest of rebellious rage,

{ With which thou flatterest thy decrepid age.[501]

The swelling poison of the several sects,

Which, wanting vent, the nation's health infects,

Shall burst its bag, and, fighting out their way,