Suspicion shows of ev'ry thing that moves;

Unused to city ways, perverse appears,

And, undismayed, to principle adheres:

THE friar found his situation hard;

He loved his ease?—all trouble would discard;

As priests in gen'ral anxiously desire;

Their plan howe'er I never can admire,

And should not choose at once to take the town,

But by the escalade obtain the crown;

In LOVE I mean; to WAR I don't allude: