English poem
The Second MARK
by Benjamin Keach (1640–1704)
When Romes great Empire to its Period came, The Papal Hierarchy usurpt the same, By hellish Craft he makes that Seat his own, And forms Regalia's to a Tripple Crown. This Man of Sin in * Gospel Times we know Was but a hatching, and in Embrio; And e'er he could come to maturity, The † Roman Empire must dissolved be; Upon whose Ruines he hath built his Nest, And rais'd his Rampant Domineering Crest.