'Schism,' he cries, 'has turned the nation's brain;
But eyes will open,—and to church again!'
Thou great infallible forbear to roar,
Thy bulls and errors are rever'd no more;
When doctrines meet with general approbation,
It is not heresy, but reformation."
His soliloquy, written in the character of Quin, on seeing Duke Humphrey at St. Albans, has humour:
"A plague on Egypt's arts, I say,
Embalm the dead!—on senseless clay