But you, who fathers and traditions take,

And garble some, and some you quite forsake,

Pretending church-authority to fix,

And yet some grains of private spirit mix,

Are, like a mule, made up of different seed,

And that's the reason why you never breed;

At least, not propagate your kind abroad,

For home dissenters are by statutes awed.

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And yet they grow upon you every day, }