Thou’lt fast each Sabbath in the yeare,
Or else, profane, be hang’d on Monday,
For butchering a Mouse on Sunday, &c.
(Musarum Deliciæ, 1656, p. 53.)
John Taylor, the Water-Poet, so early as 1620, writes of a Brownist:—
The Spirit still directs him how to pray,
Nor will he dress his meat the Sabbath day,
Which doth a mighty mystery unfold;
His zeale is hot, although his meat be cold.
Suppose his Cat on Sunday kill’d a rat,