Ab! shalt not they desert the house’s gloom, 
Breathe the fresh air oné moment, and look smart ? 
«* Meet, im some rural scene, a Colir’s smile ; 
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With Love’s soft stories wing the happy hour ; 
Drop in his dear embraces from the stile, 
And share his. kisses in the shady bowe? ?’’ 
** No ;”’ roars the Huntingtonian Priest—** No, no? 
Lovers are liars—Love’s a damned trade; 
Kissing is Camnable—to hell they go— 
’ The Devii’s claws await the rogue and jade. 
“¢ My chapel is the purifying places 
There let them go to wash their sins away ; 
There, from my hand, to pick the crumbs of grace, 
Smite their poor sinful craws, and howl, and pray.’ 
¢* How hard, the lab*ring hands no rest should know, 
But toil six days beneath the galling load, 
Poor souls! and then the seventh be torc’d to go, 
And box the Devil in Biackfriars Road. 
«¢ Heaven. gloricth not in phizzes of dismay ; 
Heaven takes no pleasure in perpetual sobbing ; 
Consenting freely, that ory fav’rite day 
May have her tea and roils, and hob and nobbing, 
** Insooth, the Lord is pleas’d when man is blest ; 
And wisheth not his blisses to blockade ; 
*Gainst tea and coffve ne’er did he protest, 
Enjoy’d, in gardens, by the men of trade. 
** Sweet is White Conduit-hause, and Bagnigge-wells, 
Chalk-farm, where Primrose-hill puts forth her smile ; 
And Don Saltero’*s, where much wonder dwells, 
Expelling work-day’s matrimonial bile. 
© Life with the down of cygnets may be clad! 
Ah! why not make her path a pleasant track ; 
** No!” cries the Pulpit Terrorist, how nad ! 
** No! Jet the world be one huge hedge-hog*s back.” 
** Vice (did his rigid mummery succeed) 
Too soon would smile amid the sacred walls ; 
Wenus, in tabernacles, make her bed ; 
And Paphos find herself amid St. Paui’s. 
*¢ Avaunt, Hypocrisy, the solemn jade, 
Who, wilful, into ditches leads the blind : 
Makes of her canting art, a thriving trade, 
And fattens on the follies of mankind ! 
** Look at Archbishops, Bishops, on a Fast, 
Denying hackney-coachmen e’en their heer; » 
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