THE LEARNED DOCTOR’S REJOINDER.
“N.B.—Though dated Nov. 26, the preceding precious farrago, with characteristic piety, was sent on Sunday, the 7th of December, no doubt with a charitable hope that it would make the Vicar’s mind, on that day, very composed and comfortable. Its authors will be sorry to know that the effect they hoped for was not produced. The delectable performance did not excite a single thought till the next morning, when the following notice was taken of it, certainly more than it deserves.”[28]
AN OLD ROD NEW TWIGGED.
“Stripes for the back of fools.”—Prov.
A few weak infidels dismay’d
Our Christian Church to think on,
Look on her strong foundations laid,
“As the Devil look’d o’er Lincoln.”
But though they look as black as he,