Shall I the Monarch in the Mimic hiss?

The thing itself is holy just and good,

When duly sought and justly understood;

But, when such weak and vain Expounders try

To force my Faith, the more resisting I.

And many a Laugh had we, not all confined

To those Expounders, though for them designed;

Cool and contemptuous we the Man survey’d,

And smil’d at Prayer, because a Bigot prayed.

I see it now—and he, unhappy! saw 340