"Quid per Luterum, Calvinum, perque Socinum,
Funditus eversam jam Babylona putas?
Perstat adhuc Babylon, et toto regnat in orbe
Sub vario primum nomine robur habens.
Ostentat muros, jactat sublimia tecta
De fundamento quis metus esse potest?
Ni Deus hanc igitur molem disjecerit ipse
Humano nunquam Marte vel arte ruet."
Przipcovius was a Polish knight, and cotempory the author of Hudibras. In a tract entitled Religio Vindicata a Calumniis Atheismi, he thus alludes to the spiritual Quixotism which induced Butler to "crack the satiric thong:"