For Martin much devotion did not ask;

They prayed sometimes, and that was all their task.

It happened, as beyond the reach of wit

Blind prophecies may have a lucky hit,

That this accomplished, or at least in part,

Gave great repute to their new Merlin's art.

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Some Swifts,[211] the giants of the Swallow kind, }

Large limbed, stout-hearted, but of stupid mind, }

(For Swisses, or for Gibeonites designed, }