Are scandals to the Church and cause they preach for.
With furious zeal you press for discipline,
With fire and blood maintain your great Diana,
Foam at the mouth when a Dissenter’s named,
And damn them if they do not love a surplice.
Smirk. Had I the power I’d make them wear pitcht surplices.
Sir Ed. Such firebrands as you but hurt the cause.
The learned’st and the wisest of your tribe
Strive by good life and meekness to o’ercome them.”