The strongest watch against the foes who sleep;

While the more wakeful, bold, and artful foe

Is suffer’d guardless and unmark’d to go.

Once in a month the sacramental bread

Our Clerk with wine upon the table spread:

The custom this, that as the vicar reads,

He for our off’rings round the church proceeds;

Tall spacious seats the wealthier people hid,

And none had view of what his neighbour did:

Laid on the box and mingled when they fell,