Made assignations, visits, and amours;

How hosts distrest, her smock for banner wore,

Which vanquished foes!

——How fish in conventicles met,

And mackerel were the bait of doctrine caught;

How cattle have judicious hearers been!

How consecrated hives with bells were hung,

And bees kept mass, and holy anthems sung!

How pigs to the rosary kneel’d, and sheep were taught

To bleat Te Deum and Magnificat;