Where copies are corrupt or lame can tell;
Restore lost canon with as little pains,
As truly explicate what still remains;
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Which yet no council dare pretend to do, }
Unless, like Esdras, they could write it new; }
Strange confidence still to interpret true, }
Yet not be sure that all they have explained,
Is in the blest original contained.
More safe, and much more modest 'tis, to say