Clerks will no time have to lunch, dine, or sup,

And parsons just now will begin to look up!

To churches, indeed, this will be a God-send,

Goldsmiths be selling off rings without end;

For now, you’ll not find from castle to cot,

A single man living who married is not!

Our cups to the dregs, &c., &c.

But hence with all quibbling, for now I’ll have done,

Though all I have said has been purely in fun;

May the Queen and the King shine like Venus and Mars,