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