They favoured e'en a foreign rebel's cause,
When their own damned design was quashed and awed;
At least they gave it their good word abroad.
As many a man, who, for a quiet life,
Breeds out his bastard, not to noise his wife,
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Thus, o'er their darling plot these Trimmers cry, }
And, though they cannot keep it in their eye, }
They bind it 'prentice to Count Tekely.[384] }
They believe not the last plot; may I be curst,