At last, with all their words and work content,
Back to their homes the prudent vestry went,
And
Richard Monday
to the workhouse sent.
There was he pinched and pitied, thump’d and fed,
And duly took his beatings and his bread;
Patient in all control, in all abuse,
He found contempt and kicking have their use:
Sad, silent, supple; bending to the blow,