That bloody statute chiefly was designed
For Chanticleer the white, of clergy kind;[243]
But after-malice did not long forget
The lay that wore the robe and coronet.[244]
For them, for their inferiors and allies,
Their foes a deadly Shibboleth devise;
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By which unrighteously it was decreed, }
That none to trust, or profit, should succeed, }
Who would not swallow first a poisonous wicked weed; }