Advised, reproved, but nothing would he mark.
Save the disgrace; “and that, my friends,” said he,
“Will I avenge, whenever time may be.”
And now, alas! ’twas time: - from man to man
Doubt and alarm and shrewd suspicions ran.
With angry spirit and with sly intent,
This parish-ruler to the altar went:
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