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Purposing some to entangle,
Forth I went and took mine Angle;
Where an huge one having hooked,
* By her headlong I was dooked.

Thence to † Grantham I retiring,
Famous for a Spire aspiring,
There a pastor with his Sweeting,
In a Chamber closely meeting,
In great Fury out he flung there,
'Cause a Popish Picture hung there.
Here the Townsmen are amated,
That there Spire should be translated
Unto Paul's; and great's their Labour,
How to purchase so much Paper
To enwrap it, as is fitting,
To secure their Spire from splitting.

Thence to ‡ New-wark, Flood-surrounded,
Where I hoping most were drowned:
Hand
*  
Mæander's Shores to Lethe's Shadows tend;
Where Waves, sound Cares, and Banks imply our end.
†  
I may compare this Town, and I be no Liar,
With any Shire for Whetstones and a Spire.
‡  
A sandy Plat a Shady Elm receives,
Which cloaths those Turrets with her shaken Leaves.

Here all along lies Bever's spacious Vale,
Near which the Streams of fruitful Trent do fall.
Vallies three so fruitful be,
They're the Wealth of Britany.
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