A very similar version is included in the poetical works of S. T. Coleridge, with a note stating that several of the stanzas were written by Robert Southey. This version is dated September 1799, and it is stated that it was first printed in the Morning Post. Several slight verbal alterations occur in it, as well as the three following very inferior stanzas which do not occur in the version ascribed to Professor Porson:—
He saw an old acquaintance
As he passed by a methodist meeting;—
She holds a consecrated key,
And the Devil nods her a greeting.
She turned up her nose, and said,
“Avaunt! my name’s Religion,”
And she looked to Mr. ——
And leered like a love sick pigeon.
He took from the poor,