The discontented now are only they Whose crimes before did your just cause betray: Of those, your edicts some reclaim from sin, But most your life and blest example win.

Are our reverenced usages nothingour solemn edicts our city's ruleand our resolution to govern and that fairly and with effect?"

Are our reverenced usages nothingour solemn edicts our city's ruleand our resolution to govern and that fairly and with effect?"

His gracious edict the same franchise yields To all the wild increase of woods and fields, And who in rocks aloof, and who in steeples builds: 1250 To Crows the like impartial grace affords, And Choughs and Daws, and such republic birds: Secured with ample privilege to feed, Each has his district, and his bounds decreed; Combined in common interest with his own, But not to pass the Pigeon's Rubicon.