A Character of the Province of Maryland / Described in four distinct parts; also a small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, their customs, manners, absurdities, and religion; together with a collection of historical letters.

by George Alsop

E’re such a Cap drest up in Hebrew:

Nor the strict Order of the Romish See,

Wears any Cap that looks so base as thee;

His Holiness hates thy Lowness, and instead,

Wears Peters spired Steeple on his head:

The Cardinals descent is much more flat,

For want of name, baptized is A Hat;

Through each strict Order has my fancy ran,

Both Ambrose, Austin, and the Franciscan,

Where I beheld rich Images of the dead,