Blessedest Thursday 's the fat of the week.

Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough,

Stinking and savory, smug and gruff,

Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime

Gives us the summons—'t is sermon-time!

Boh, here 's Barnabas! Job, that 's you?

Up stumps Solomon—bustling too?

Shame, man! greedy beyond your years

To handsel the bishop's shaving-shears?

Fair play 's a jewel! Leave friends in the lurch?