II. _The Divine._

My calling is Diuine, and I from God am sent,

I will no chop-Church be, nor pay my patron rent,

Nor yeeld to sacriledge; but like the kind true mother,

Rather will loose all the child, then part it with another;

Much wealth, I will not seeke, nor worldly masters serue,

So to grow rich and fat, while my poore flock doth sterue.

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