And view those errors which new sects maintain,
Or which of old disturb'd the [Church's] peaceful reign:
And we can point each period of the time
When they began and who begat the crime;
Can calculate how long th' eclipse endured;
Who interposed; what digits were obscured;
Of all which are already pass'd away,
We [know] the rise, the progress, and decay.
Dryden.—Hind and Panther, Part II.
[Ah!] said the Hind, how many sons have you