With thoughts so profane,
'Tis a-mercy to find that at church they contain;
Even Hen—ham's shapes their weak fancies entice,
And rather than me they will ogle the Vice.[282]
IV.
These practices, madam, my preaching disgrace;
Shall laymen enjoy the just rights of my place?
Then all may lament my condition for hard,
To thresh in the pulpit without a reward.
Then pray condescend,