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They dye like men? nay (with reverence be that spoken, which the spirit of God himself speaketh) they dye many of them like beasts. As abusing their power they live ^alike beasts; and become in that regard ^bworse than beasts here: so through the just judgment of God, they dye many times more like beasts than like men, ^clike sheep, saith the Psalmist, dying in a ditch: as it was said of Pope Boniface, that ^dhe came in like a Fox, he ruled like a Lyon, and dyed like a Dog: so ^eJoram rotting away by piecemeal, till his very entrails fall out: ^fJehoiakim dragged and cast out like carrion, and ^gburied with the burial of an Ass: and ^hHerod eaten up with vermin, (as ^kothers of his rank not a few) when but a little before he had bin applauded and admired as ⁱa God. They so dye, that ^lthey leave their names for a curse behind them after their death: ^mMake them and their Princes like ⁿOreb & Zeeb; or like ^oZeba and Zalmanah, or like