Might, by the promise that is here, be won
To steal from active duties, and embrace
Obscurity, and undisturbed repose.[426]
—Knowledge, methinks, in these disordered times,
Should be allowed a privilege to have
Her anchorites, like piety of old;[GB]
Men, who, from faction sacred, and unstained
By war, might, if so minded, turn aside
Uncensured, and subsist, a scattered few
Living to God and nature, and content