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As when two rams° stird with ambitious pride, Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke, Their horned fronts so fierce on either side Do meete, that with the terrour of the shocke Astonied both, stand sencelesse as a blocke, Forgetfull of the hanging victory:° So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke, Both staring fierce, and holding idely The broken reliques° of their former cruelty.