The stock-fish thick-siders,
The carps are sharp-set—
All the sermon forget.
Much delighted were they,
But preferred the old way.
Abraham á Sancta-Clara.
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN
SPEAK, satire; for there’s none can tell like thee
Whether ’tis folly, pride, or knavery
That makes this discontented land appear