Found Hawkesbury’s letter all a take-in.[66]

Now should you slight the dire monition

Of this ill boding apparition,

You truly will be well deserving

The dreadful destiny of starving!

O then, dread sirs, brimful of rage,

War! horrid war! is yours to wage,

To extirpate the deadly schism,

The heresy of Perkinism!

Pursue the steps that learned sage hath,