It must, no question, give them lively joy,
Hopes long indulged to combat and destroy;
At these they levelled all their skill and strength, -
He fell not quickly, but he fell at length:
They quoted books, to him both bold and new,
And scorn’d as fables all he held as true;
“Such monkish stories, and such nursery lies,”
That he was struck with terror and surprise.
“What! all his life had he the laws obey’d,
Which they broke through and were not once afraid?