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Excerpt from The Poems of Phineas Fletcher, B. D., Rector of Hilgay, Norfolk, Vol. 2 of 4: Containing, Locustae, the Apollyonists or Locusts; With Appendix of Notes and Illustrations, Piscatorie Eclogues, &C
Divine interea resonant Sacraria verbo, Indomitus possessa tenet suggesta Minister, Et victus, victorque novos vocat impiger hostes Et nunc ille minis stimulans, nunc laeta reponens, Seite animos ?eetit monitis, et corda remuleet. Quin etiam sanetil vulgata Scientia Scripti Invexit superes terris, et luce corusea 2dissolvit tenebrae, noctemque; exeussit inertem. Crescit in immensum Pietas, finesque recusat Relligionis amor: fugit Ignorantia, lueis Impatiens, fugit Impietas, artusque pudendos N uda Superstitio, et nunquam non devius Error. J 3vim patitur, gaudetque trahi coeleste repique Imperium quin et gentes emensa supremas, Virginiam (nostras, Vmbrae, tot seeula sedes) Aggreditur, mex Cocytum,4 Stigiasque paludes Tranabit, vix hunc nobis Aeheronta relinquet.
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