And so I got preferment;

To teach my flock I never miss’d,

“Reform is revolution,

“And damn’d are those that do assist

“To mend a Constitution.”

And this is law, I will aver,

Tho’ stiff-neck’d fools may sneer, sir,

Whoe’er may be the Minister,

I’ll be the Chaplain here, sir.

When gentle Sidmouth sway’d the Crown