More speaks these lines to quell a rioting crowd swelling with anti-immigration sentiment. SIR THOMAS MORE Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England. Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs, with their poor luggage, Plodding to th’ ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silenced by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed. What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled.
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