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Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering / 'Gainst poor Excisemen? Give the cause a hearing: / What are your Landlord's rent-rolls? Taxing ledgers! / What Premiers? What ev'n Monarchs? Mighty Gaugers! / Nay, what are Priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,) / What are they, pray, but Spiritual Excisemen!