88 ROMISH INDULGENCE. 
And yet, every Sunday, they wil surely spend 
One penny or two, the Bearward’s living to mend 
At Paris Garden, each Sunday, a man shall not fail 
To find two or three hundred, for the Bearward’s 
vale ; 
One halfpenny a-piece they use for to give, 
When some of them have no more in their purses, I 
believe : 
Wel! at the Last Day, their conscience wil declare, 
That the poor ought to have all that they may spare : 
If you, therefore, give, to see a Bear fight, 
Be sure God his curse upon you will light !? ” 
‘ Well! Iam glad that, even if no ear- 
lier than Henry VIII. religion was held, at 
least by some persons, as at variance with 
these sports; and I hope the Clergy were at 
all times their zealous reprovers ?” 
‘‘ For my part, my dear sister,” replied 
Mr. Dartmouth, “ I think that the verses 
which I have repeated, and the age in which, 
they were written, afford strong presumption 
of a fact which yet I do not know; namely, 
that their author was a Reformer, and a re- 
nouncer of the ancient religion of the coun- 
try. All religious establishments are parts 
of the civil government ; and civil govern- 
ments, as I have already intimated an opi- 
