And now the Saints began their reign,
For which th’ had yearn’d so long in vain,
And felt such bowel-hankerings,
To see an empire all of Kings. 240
Deliver’d from the Egyptian awe
Of Justice, Government, and Law,
And free t’ erect what spiritual Cantons
Should be reveal’d, or Gospel Hans-Towns,
To edify upon the ruins 245
Of John of LEYDEN’S old Out-goings;
Who for a weather-cock hung up,
Upon the Mother Church’s top;
Was made a type, by Providence,
Of all their revelations since; 250
And now fulfill’d by his successors,
Who equally mistook their measures
For when they came to shape the model,
Not one could fit another’s noddle;
But found their Light and Gifts more wide 255
From fadging than th’ unsanctify’d;
While ev’ry individual brother
Strove hand to fist against another;
And still the maddest, and most crackt,
Were found the busiest to transact 260
For though most hands dispatch apace,
And make light work, (the proverb says,)
Yet many diff’rent intellects
Are found t’ have contrary effects;
And many heads t’ obstruct intrigues, 265
As slowest insects have most legs.

Some were for setting up a King;
But all the rest for no such thing,
Unless king Jesus.  Others tamper’d
For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert; 270
Some for the Rump; and some, more crafty,
For Agitators, and the safety;
Some for the Gospel, and massacres
Of Spiritual Affidavit-makers,
That swore to any human regence, 275
Oaths of supremacy and allegiance;
Yea, though the ablest swearing Saint
That vouch’d the Bulls o’ th’ Covenant: 
Others for pulling down th’ high-places
Of Synods and Provincial Classes, 280
That us’d to make such hostile inroads
Upon the Saints, like bloody NIMRODS
Some for fulfilling prophecies,
And th’ expiration of th’ excise
And some against th’ Egyptian bondage 285
Of holy-days, and paying poundage: 
Some for the cutting down of groves,
And rectifying bakers’ loaves: 
And some for finding out expedients
Against the slav’ry of obedience. 290
Some were for Gospel Ministers,
And some for Red-coat Seculars,
As men most fit t’ hold forth the word,
And wield the one and th’ other sword. 
Some were for carrying on the work 295
Against the Pope, and some the Turk;
Some for engaging to suppress,
The Camisado of surplices,
That gifts and dispensations hinder’d,
And turn’d to th’ Outward Man the Inward; 300
More proper for the cloudy night