It is not mumbling over thrice a day

A Set of Ave Maries, or of Creeds,

Or many houres formally to pray;

When from a dull Devotion it proceedes:

Nor is it, up and downe the Land to seeke

To finde those well breath'd Lecturers, that can

Preach thrice a Sabbath, and sixe times a weeke,

Yet be as fresh, as when they first beganne:

Nor, is it, such like things perform'd by Number

Which God respects: Nor doth his Wisdome crave