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fenestræ,
                    Amplaque per tenues translucent atria muros;
                    Excitat hic varios plebs agglomerata susurros;
                    Qualiter instrepitant circum mulctralia bombis
                    Agmina muscarum, aut texto per ovilia junco,
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       180      Dum Canis 20 æstivum cœli petit ardua culmen.
                    Ipsa quidem summâ sedet ultrix matris in arce,
                    Auribus innumeris cinctum caput eminet olli,
                    Queis sonitum exiguum trahit, atque levissima captat
                    Murmura, ab extremis patuli confinibus orbis.
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       185      Nec tot, Aristoride 21 servator inique juvencæ
                    Isidos, immiti volvebas lumina vultu,
                    Lumina non unquam tacito nutantia somno,
                    Lumina subjectas late spectantia terras.
                    Istis illa solet loca luce carentia sæpe
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       190      Perlustrare, etiam radianti impervia soli.
                    Millenisque loquax auditaque visaque linguis
                    Cuilibet effundit temeraria, veráque mendax
                    Nunc minuit, modò confictis sermonibus auget.
                    Sed tamen a nostro meruisti carmine laudes
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       195      Fama, bonum quo non aliud veracius ullum,
                    Nobis digna cani, nec te memorasse pigebit
                    Carmine tam longo, servati scilicet Angli
                    Officiis, vaga diva, tuis, tibi reddimus æqua.
                    Te Deus æternos motu qui temperat ignes,
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       200      Fulmine præmisso alloquitur, terrâque tremente:
                    Fama siles? an te latet impia Papistarum
                    Conjurata cohors in meque meosque Britannos,
                    Et nova sceptrigero cædes meditata Jäcobo?
                    Nec plura, illa statim sensit mandata Tonantis,
    205
       205      Et satis antè fugax stridentes induit alas,
                    Induit et variis exilia corpora plumis;
                    Dextra tubam gestat Temesæo 22 ex ære sonoram.
                    Nec mora, jam pennis cedentes remigat auras,
                    Atque parum est cursu celeres prævertere nubes,
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       210      Jam ventos, jam solis equos post terga reliquit:
                    Et primò Angliacas solito de more per urbes
                    Ambiguas voces, incertaque murmura spargit,
                    Mox arguta dolos, et detestabile vulgat
                    Proditionis opus, nec non facta horrida dictu,
    215
       215      Authoresque addit sceleris, nec garrula cæcis
                    Insidiis loca structa silet; stupuere relatis,
                    Et pariter juvenes, pariter tremuere puellæ,
                    Effætique senes pariter, tantæque ruinæ
                    Sensus ad ætatem subitò penetraverat omnem.
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       220      Attamen interea populi miserescit ab alto
                    Æthereus pater, et crudelibus obstitit ausis
                    Papicolûm; capti pœnas raptantur ad acres;
                    At pia thura Deo, et grati solvuntur honores;
                    Compita læta focis genialibus omnis fumant;
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       225      Turba choros juvenilis agit: Quintoque Novembris
                    Nulla Dies toto occurrit celebratior anno.

On the fifth of November
    Now the devout James coming from the remote north / ruled over the Troy-descended people