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Of Strong Tyrants. SECT. V:
146.
NOw from the setting of this evening Star
Ascends that morning Planets influence,
Which both in Light and Glory passeth far;
These Comets of strong pow'r in feeble sence,
And who from inequality of state
Strive to make all, for one, unfortunate,
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I mean such confident imperious Spirits,
As over act with restless Scepter-wit,
Thinking the world inferior to their merits;
And brook no other bounds or laws in it,
Then to make all their own thoughts, words, and deeds
Receiv'd of people not as Rules, but Creeds.
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Which souls thus over-swoln with windy vice,
Must wisely be allay'd, and moulded be;
Lest Torrent-like, they with the prejudice
Of People, wast their own transcendency;
And thus by cutting real grounds too thin,
Have their ambitions ever to begin.