This Disappointment enrag'd the Party, and that very Rage entirely
ruin'd their Project; for now the Nobility, the Patriarchs, and all
the wise Men of the Nation, joining together against these Men of
Heat and Fury, the Queen began to see into their Designs, and as she
was of a most pious and peaceable Temper, she conceiv'd a just Hatred
of so wicked and barbarous a Design, and immediately dismiss'd from
her Council and Favour the Great Scribe, and several others who were
Leaders in the Design, to the great mortification of the whole Party,
and utter Ruin of the intended Law against the Crolians.

Here I could not but observe, as I have done before in the Case of
the banish'd King, how impolitick these high Solunarian Church-men
acted in all their Proceedings, for had they contented themselves by
little and little to ha' done their Work, they had done it
effectually; but pushing at Extremities they overshot themselves, and
ruin'd all.

For the Grandees and Patriarchs made but a few trifling Objections at
first, nay and came off, and yielded some of them too; and if these
would ha' consented to ha' parted with some Clauses which they have
willingly left out since, they had had it pass'd; but these were as
hot Men always are, too eager and sure of their Game, they thought
all was their own, and so they lost themselves.

If they rail'd at the low Solunarian Church-men before, they doubled
their Clamors at them now, all the Patriarchs, and all the Nobility
and Grandees, nay even the Queen her self came under their Censure,
and every Body who was not of their Mind were Prestarians and
Crolians.