It is not that I adulate the people:

Without me, there are demagogues enough,[496]And infidels, to pull down every steeple,

And set up in their stead some proper stuff.

Whether they may sow scepticism to reap Hell,

As is the Christian dogma rather rough,

I do not know;—I wish men to be free

As much from mobs as kings—from you as me.