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With groundless fears, and jealousies possest, }
As if this troublesome intruding guest }
Would drive the birds of Venus[242] from their nest. }
A deed his inborn equity abhorred;
But interest will not trust, though God should plight his word.
A law, the source of many future harms,
Had banished all the poultry from the farms;
With loss of life, if any should be found
To crow or peck on this forbidden ground.