Their boldest leaders were for a time appalled; and when they resumed their measures, they gradually approached rather revolution than reform, and thus alienated the more temperate of their own party, till at length their schemes terminated in the Rye-house Conspiracy.

Columbus was the first that shook his throne, And found a temperate in a torrid zone, 10 The feverish air fann'd by a cooling breeze, The fruitful vales set round with shady trees: And guiltless men, who danced away their time, Fresh as their groves, and happy as their clime.