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Veil:then, or.vanifh, die, or difappear;
And leave ws Fools to. our Careffes here.
My thund’ring Mandateshaving purg"d the Air,
The Gods conſenting, and the Paffage clear,
T thus attempt my Grandeur to extol,
A&ing my own Encomiaft in a Droll:
PI make defcriptive Gloffes on a Straw,
And tofs the World to a Tarantula.
Thus; long-blefs’d Herd, have E with Pati¬
ence feen
Minerva'’s- Scepter: taking Place of’ mine :¬
That curs’d irago, whofe officious Spies
Have watch’d you-out of all your Libraries :
Her Devorées, a bafe,. degenerous Brood,
Like wafpifh Infes fwarm, and buz abroad:
Thefe with unruly Infolence have made
Injurious Inroads on thofe Rights I had 5
They fetter Souls with: Magiſterial Rage,
And letture Freemen into. Vifalaze 3
Nay, by the Cércumvenrions of Diſpute,
They’ prove my Chaftity a Profliture..
Thus overgrown in Sophiftry and Pride,
Theyre Kengs themfelves, but make all Slaves
And fhall thefeR ebelsthus ufurp it on? [befide :
No, their Dogmatick Tyranny fhall down.
Inſtead of Problems, Schemes, Compendeums,
ThofeExecurion-Engines of the Schools, (Rules,
I, with my Péures,Puppers, Dwarfs and Apes,
Mafques,, Mermaids, Interludes, and Antick¬
Will mount theStage,ridiculouflyFine, (Shapes,
In all the Colours of an Indéan-QuEEN,.*
* Alluding to a Play under that Title, Written by
Sir. Robert Howard,
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