He heard and ponder’d - What, to men so vile,
Should be his language? - For his threat’ning style
They were too many; - if his speech were meek,
They would despise such poor attempts to speak:
At other times with every word at will,
He now sat lost, perplex’d, astonish’d, still.
Here were Socinians, Deists, and indeed
All who, as foes to England’s Church, agreed;
But still with creeds unlike, and some without a creed:
Here, too, fierce friends of liberty he saw,