"A pretty thing, forsooth!
Is he to burn, all scalding hot,
Me and my wife, and am I not
To job him out a tooth?"
Those who think parody vulgar will be pleased to substitute for the above a quotation from Butler[[360]]:—
"There's nothing so absurd or vain
Or barbarous or inhumane,
But if it lay the least pretence
To piety and godliness,