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