}
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,