I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs <br />By the known rules of ancient liberty, <br />When straight a barbarous noise environs me <br />Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs; <br />As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs <br />Railed at Latona’s twin-born progeny, <br />Which after held the Sun and Moon in fee. <br />But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, <br />That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, <br />And still revolt when Truth would set them free. <br />Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; <br />For who loves that must first be wise and good: <br />But from that mark how far they rove we see, <br />For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.<br /><br />John Milton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-same/
