Unworthy of Cupid, or e’en state affairs.

To worship his saint did he thus take a trip,

And, quite pilgrim-like, with no cash in his scrip;

When one of the vestals, the Bishop attacked,

(It seems that the altar some sacrifice lack’d),

Oh! come you with money, or come you with pray’rs,

Or come you with vows that you’ll settle affairs?

Without you have cash must your suit be denied,

Love swells like the ocean but ebbs like its tide;

So now I observe—and observe very true,