When on the Pulpit-stairs ye shall have room,

There to be asked many a Question deep,

By th’ Parson, with his dinner, half a sleep.

But now aloft the Preacher ’gan to thunder,

When the poor women they sit trembling under,

Jack-a-Dandy!

And if he name Gehenna or the Dragon,

Their faith, alas! was little then to brag on;

Or if he did relate, how little wit

The foolish Virgins had, then doe they sit