}

They long their fellow-subjects to inthral, }

Their patron's promise into question call,[256] }

And vainly think he meant to make them lords of all. }

False fears their leaders failed not to suggest,

As if the Doves were to be dispossessed;

Nor sighs, nor groans, nor goggling eyes did want,

For now the Pigeons too had learned to cant.

The house of prayer is stocked with large increase;

Nor doors, nor windows, can contain the press,