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| Religion | Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport. |
| Religion | So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, That maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own. |
| Resolution | Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest. |
| Results | As you sow y' are like to reap. |
| Royalty | I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint. |
| Royalty | Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails, I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails. |
| Royalty | I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, And preached against the Crown. |
| Sin | Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. |
| Soldiers | Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! |
| Soul | And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. |
| Speech | For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. |
| Speech | He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble. |
| Stars | A grisly meteor on his face. |
| Stars | This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. |
| Stars | Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. |
| Sun Dial Mottoes | True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. |
| Suspicion | Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take th' alarm, You bus'ness is but to inform, But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, You have a wrong sow by the ear. |
| Swine | Shear swine, all cry and no wool. |
| Swine | You have a wrong sow by the ear. |
| Talk | But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. |
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