Note 118 — PART II TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.

{The visible church how prone was she to abjure} {Allegiance to Christ's Kingdom and entwine} With glorious flowers that shall for aye endure Weeds on whose front the world had fixed her sign. False man—if with thy trials thus it fared— If good can smooth the way to evil choice, From hasty answer be our minds kept free; He only judges right who weighs, compares, And, in the sternest sentence that his voice May utter, ne'er abandons charity. C.