In all the Father slighted or disdain’d:
Honour to value at the noblest price;
To hold no parly with a pleading Vice;
And true Religion to defend in Times
When Truth and faith were heresies and Crimes.
The Man whom Vere judg’d fittest to protect 650
His Boy, when young, and into Life direct
Was one who made of Talents no display: }
A mild good Man, of whom his friends could say }
That Foes in vain might blame the Lord of Etheringay— }