}

To what stupidity are zealots grown, }

Whose inhumanity, profusely shewn }

In damning crowds of souls, may damn their own! }

I'll err, at least, on the securer side,

A convert free from malice and from pride.

Roscommon.


TO
MR DRYDEN,
ON HIS POEM CALLED
RELIGIO LAICI.

Great is the task, and worthy such a muse,