Secur’d against the hue-and-cry;
For presbyter and INDEPENDANT 45
Were now turn’d plaintiff and defendant;
Laid out their apostolic functions
On carnal orders and injunctions;
And all their precious Gifts and Graces
On outlawries and scire facias; 50
At Michael’s term had many a trial,
Worse than the Dragon and St. Michael,
Where thousands fell, in shape of fees,
Into the bottomless abyss. 
For when like brethren, and like friends, 55
They came to share their dividends,
And ev’ry partner to possess
His Church and State Joint-Purchases,
In which the ablest Saint, and best,
Was nam’d in trust by all the rest, 60
To pay their money; and, instead
Of ev’ry Brother, pass the deed;
He strait converted all his gifts
To pious frauds and holy shifts;
And settled all the other shares 65
Upon his outward man and’s heirs;
Held all they claim’d as forfeit lands,
Deliver’d up into his hands,
And pass’d upon his conscience,
By Pre-intail of Providence; 70
Impeach’d the rest for reprobates,
That had no titles to estates,
But by their spiritual attaints
Degraded from the right of Saints. 
This b’ing reveal’d, they now begun 75
With law and conscience to fall on,
And laid about as hot and brain-sick
As th’ Utter Barrister of SWANSWICK;
Engag’d with moneybags as bold
As men with sand bags did of old; 80
That brought the lawyers in more fees
Than all unsanctify’d Trustees;
Till he who had no more to show
I’ th’ case receiv’d the overthrow;
Or both sides having had the worst, 85
They parted as they met at first.

Poor presbyter was now reduc’d,
Secluded, and cashier’d, and chous’d
Turn’d out, and excommunicate
From all affairs of Church and State; 90
Reform’d t’ a reformado Saint,
And glad to turn itinerant,
To stroll and teach from town to town,
And those he had taught up, teach down. 
And make those uses serve agen 95
Against the new-enlighten’d men,
As fit as when at first they were
Reveal’d against the cavalier;
Damn Anabaptist and fanatic,
As pat as Popish and Prelatic; 100
And with as little variation,
To serve for any Sect i’ th’ nation. 
The Good Old Cause, which some believe
To be the Dev’l that tempted Eve
With Knowledge, and does still invite 105
The world to mischief with new Light,
Had store of money in her purse
When he took her for bett’r or worse;
But now was grown deform’d and poor,
And fit to be turn’d out of door. 110