The _Bounder-Stones_, held sacred, heretofore, Some did so superstitiously adore, As, that they did not onely rev’rence doe them, But, have ascrib’d a kinde of _God-head_, to them: For, _Terminus_ had many a _Sacrifize_, As well as other senslesse _Deities_. I am not so prophane, as to desire Such Ethnick zeale should set our hearts on fire: But, wish I could, Men better did regard Those _Bounders_, which _Antiquity_ hath rear’d; And, that, they would not, with so much delight, There, make _incroachments_, where they have no _right_. That, ev’ry man might keep his owne _Possessions_, Our Fathers, us’d in reverent _Processions_ (With zealous prayers, and with praisefull cheere) To walke their _Parish-limits_, once a yeare: And, well knowne _Markes_ (which sacrilegious Hands Now cut or breake) so bord’red out their Lands, That, ev’ry one distinctly knew his owne; And, many brawles, now rife, were then unknowne. But, since neglected, sacred _Bounders_ were, Most men _Incroachers_, and _Intruders_ are: They grieve each other, and their _Dues_ they steale, From _Prince_, from _Parent_, and from _Common-weale_. Nay, more; these bold Vsurpers are so rude, That, they, on _Christ’s_ Inheritance intrude. But, that will be aveng’d; and (on his _right_) Though such incroach, he will not lose it quite: For, hee’s that _Bounder_, and that _Corner-stone_, Who all _confines_, and is _confin’d_, of none. _Where =Lovers= fitly matched be, In =mutuall-duties=, they agree_. [Illustration: MANUS MANUM LAUAT. ILLVSTR. XXVIII. _Book. 3_]