In honour to make good his ground, 700
When he’s engag’d, and takes no notice,
If any press upon him, who ’tis;
But let’s them know, at their own cost,
That he intends to keep his post. 
This to prevent, and other harms, 705
Which always wait on feats of arms,
(For in the hurry of a fray
’Tis hard to keep out of harm’s way,)
Thither the Knight his course did steer,
To keep the peace ’twixt dog and bear; 710
As he believ’d he was bound to do
In conscience, and commission too;
And therefore thus bespoke the Squire.

We that

are wisely mounted higher
Than constables in curule wit,
When on tribunal bench we sit,
Like speculators shou’d foresee,
From Pharos of authority,
Portended mischiefs farther then
Low Proletarian tything-men:  720
And therefore being inform’d by bruit,
That dog and bear are to dispute;
For so of late men fighting name,
Because they often prove the same;
(For where the first does hap to be, 725
The last does coincidere;)
Quantum in nobis, have thought good,
To save th’ expence of Christian blood,
And try if we, by mediation
Of treaty and accommodation, 730
Can end the quarrel and compose
The bloody duel without blows. 
Are not our liberties, our lives,
The laws, religion and our wives,
Enough at once to lie at stake 735
For Cov’nant and the Cause’s sake? 
But in that quarrel dogs and bears,
As well as we must venture theirs
This feud, by Jesuits invented,
By evil counsel is fomented:  740
There is a MACHIAVILIAN plot,
(Tho’ ev’ry Nare olfact is not,)
A deep design in’t, to divide
The well-affected that confide,
By setting brother against brother, 745
To claw and curry one another. 
Have we not enemies plus satis,
That Cane & Angue pejus hate us? 
And shall we turn our fangs and claws
Upon our own selves, without cause? 750
That some occult design doth lie
In bloody cynarctomachy,
Is plain enough to him that knows
How Saints lead brothers by the nose. 
I wish myself a pseudo-prophet, 755
But sure some mischief will come of it;
Unless by providential wit,
Or force, we averruncate it. 
For what design, what interest,
Can beast have to encounter beast? 760
They fight for no espoused cause,
Frail privilege, fundamental laws,
Not for a thorough reformation,
Nor covenant, nor protestation,
Nor liberty of consciences, 765
Nor Lords and Commons ordinances;
Nor for the church, nor for church-lands,