Shall Judas—hard upon the donor's heel,

To filch the fragments of the basket—plead

He was too near the preacher's mouth, nor sat

Attent with fifties in a company?

No,—closer to promulgated decree,

Clearer the censure of default. Proceed!

I find him bound, then, to begin life well;

Fortified by propitious circumstance,

Great birth, good breeding, with the Church for guide,

How lives he? Cased thus in a coat of proof,