When justice wink’d on every jovial crew,
And ten-pins tumbled in the parson’s view.”
He told, when angry wives, provoked to rail,
Or drive a third-day drunkard from his ale,
What were his triumphs, and how great the skill
That won the vex’d virago to his will;
Who raving came; - then talked in milder strain, -
Then wept, then drank, and pledged her spouse again.
Such were his themes : how knaves o’er laws prevail,
Or, when made captives, how they fly from jail;