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Brought are the fiery bombs, while they prepare sulph’urous stink-pots and grenades of fire: But them of Vulcan biddeth he to spare their dread artill’ery belching flames in ire; naught did that gentle gen’erous spirit care with fear the few and fearful folk t’ inspire, and right his reas’oning: ’Twere a boast too cheap to play the Lyon on the seely Sheep.