One great part of the Inhabitants of this Province are desiredly Zealous, great pretenders to Holiness; and where any thing appears that carries on the Frontispiece of its Effigies the stamp of Religion, though fundamentally never so imperfect, they are suddenly taken with it, and out of an eager desire to any thing that’s new, not weighing the sure matter in the Ballance of Reason, are very apt to be catcht. (See note No. 31). _Quakerism_ is the only Opinion that bears the Bell away (see note No. 32): The _Anabaptists_ (see note No. 33) have little to say here, {51} as well as in other places, since the Ghost of _John_ of _Leyden_ haunts their Conventicles. The _Adamite_, _Ranter_, and _Fifty-Monarchy men_, _Mary-Land_ cannot, nay will not digest within her liberal stomach such corroding morsels: So that this Province is an utter Enemy to blasphemous and zealous Imprecations, drain’d from the Lymbeck of hellish and damnable Spirits, as well as profuse prophaness, that issues from the prodigality of none but cract-brain Sots. _’Tis said the Gods lower down that Chain above,_ _That tyes both Prince and Subject up in Love;_ _And if this Fiction of the Gods be true,_ _Few_, Mary-Land, _in this can boast but you:_ _Live ever blest, and let those Clouds that do_ _Eclipse most States, be always Lights to you;_ _And dwelling so, you may for ever be_ _The only Emblem of Tranquility._ {52} CHAP. III. _The necessariness of Servitude proved, with the common usage of Servants in_ Mary-Land, _together with their Priviledges_.