The poor priest was reduced to common sense,
Or to coarse efforts very loud and long,
To hammer a hoarse laugh from the thick throng.[OF]
LXXXIV.
There is a difference, says the song, "between
A beggar and a Queen,"[801] or was (of late
The latter worse used of the two we've seen—
But we 'll say nothing of affairs of state);
A difference "'twixt a Bishop and a Dean,"
A difference between crockery ware and plate,