In any person’s recollection,
Was such a couple seen,
For genuflection!
Making as great a drudgery of prayer
As humble Curates are oblige’d to do,—
Whose labour, wo the while! scarce buys them cassocks;
And, every morning, whether foul or fair,
Sir Thomas and the Dame were in their pew,
Craw-thumping, upon hassocks.
It could not otherwise befall