Versos English Benjamin Keach Sion

English poem

Sion

by (1640–1704)

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THe Pope's the Beast, usurping over all; A Power Supream and Magistratical; This Scarlet Beast do's in the strictest fence Lay claim to Secular Preheminence. The Roman Empire lost the Ruling Seat, The Pope usurpt it, and from thence grew great, All Kings that he could by his craft allure, Receive their Power; and Investiture.

From him: the Whore's th' Ecclesiastick State, Or Romish Hierarchy, that take's her Seat Upon the back of this Ten horned Steed, (Which gores my side, and makes my Children bleed.)