Although my innocency is shelter'd with a bulwark of vertues, nevertheless I find the same undermin'd in its own garrison  therefore I must call to the allies to assist against so many legions: and if that don't do, I shall implore our sovereign to grant me Hercules that h may perform the thirteenth blow.

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