Doubt and alarm and shrewd suspicions ran.

With angry spirit and with sly intent,

This parish ruler to the altar went;

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A private mark he fix'd on shillings three,

And but one mark could in the money see;

Besides, in peering round, he chanced to note

A sprinkling slight on Jachin's Sunday-coat.

All doubt was over:—when the flock were bless'd,

In wrath he rose, and thus his mind express'd,