And drive the nurse and grandam from the soul;
Told us the word of God was all we saw,
And that the law of nature was his law;
This law of nature we might find abstruse,
But gain sufficient for our common use.
“Thus, by persuasion, we our duties learn’d,
And were but little in the cause concern’d.
We lived in peace, in intellectual ease, 480
And thought that virtue was the way to please,
And pure morality the keeping free