The Lectures of Priests, or Morality’s Rules,

Or the pitifull Dreams of the Herd we dispise—

The Puritan dull, and the Prelate precise;

Ye learned Philosophers, Deists devout,

Who know not the Depth of the Thing you’re about— 130

But, I’m willing to own it, ’tis proper you should

And Satan here thanks you: ye’ve done him much Good.

Before ye began to reform Men’s Opinions,

How bounded my Realm, how restrain’d my Dominions!

But now, since ’tis clear that there’s no Revelation, }