That curate's face, with half a yard of hair on it!

At length he gave a charge, and spake this word:

"Vicars, your curates to enjoyment urge ye may.

To check their harmless pleasuring's absurd;

What laymen do without reproach, my clergy may."

He spake, and lo! at this concluding word of him,

The curate vanished—no one since has heard of him.


[LIFE]