"No other world may share those stores
To other worlds so little known." Ed. 1788.
"Did more to me than magic seem." Ib.
ON THE CREW OF A CERTAIN VESSEL[330]
Several of whom happened to be of similar names to Celebrated Foreign Clergymen
In life's unsettled, odd career
What changes every day appear
To please or plague the eye:
A goodly brotherhood of priests
Are here transformed to swearing beasts
Who heaven and hell defy.
Here Bonner, bruised with many a knock,
Has changed his surplice for a frock;
Old Erskine swabs the decks,
And Watts, who once such pleasure took
In writing Hymns—here, turned a cook,
Sinners no longer vex.
Here Burnet, Tillotson, and Blair,
With Jemmy Hervey, curse and swear,
Here Cudworth mixes grog;
Pearson the crew to dinner hails,
A graceless Sherlock trims the sails,
And Bunyan heaves the log.
[330] The index to the edition of 1795 instead of "vessel" gives "ship of war." The text follows the edition of 1809.