As much as man could compass, uninspired;

Where we may see what errors have been made

Both in the copiers' and translators' trade;

How Jewish, Popish, interests have prevailed,

And where infallibility has failed.

For some, who have his secret meaning guessed,

Have found our author not too much a priest;

For fashion-sake he seems to have recourse

To pope, and councils, and traditions' force;

But he that old traditions' could subdue,