So to declare the conscience satisfied:
Nor for their bodies would accept release;
But, blessing God and praising him, bequeathed
With their last breath, from out the smouldering flame,
The faith which they by diligence had earned,
Or,[515] through illuminating grace, received,
For their dear countrymen, and all mankind.
O high example, constancy divine!
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Even such a Man (inheriting the zeal