And there all the night did repose,

And then, the next day being Sabbath,

Away he to Whittingham goes;

Where he to revenge the miscarriage

Of his little scatter-brain’d nag,

He went to the clerk of the parish,

To get him expos’d for a vague.

The clerk he soon set up his cropping,

And made a great bustle and stear;

The church-yard appear’d like a hopping,