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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:
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