He ax'd sure-ly a sum purdigious!

But being so particular religious,

Why, that, you see, put master on his guard!"

Church is "a little heav'n below,

I have been there and still would go,"—

Yet I am none of those, who think it odd

A man can pray unbidden from the cassock,

And, passing by the customary hassock,

Kneel down remote upon the simple sod,

And sue in formâ pauperis to God.