And to explain what your forefathers meant,

By real presence in the sacrament,

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After long fencing pushed against a wall, }

Your salvo comes, that he's not there at all: }

There changed your faith, and what may change may fall. }

Who can believe what varies every day,

Nor ever was, nor will be at a stay?—

Tortures may force the tongue untruths to tell,

And I ne'er owned myself infallible,