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, }