And the first object I discern'd

Was the glistering spire of St. Mary Ottery.

Marg. Well, John.

John. Then I remember'd 'twas the sabbath day.

Immediately a wish arose in my mind,

To go to church and pray with Christian people.

And then I check'd myself, and said to myself,

"Thou hast been a heathen, John, these two years past,

(Not having been at church in all that time,)

And is it fit, that now for the first time