Drink upsees out,[335] and a fig for the vicar!

Our vicar he calls it damnation to sip

The ripe ruddy dew of a woman’s dear lip,

Says, that Beelzebub[336] lurks in her kerchief so sly,

And Apollyon[337] shoots darts from her merry black eye;

Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker,

Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar!

Our vicar thus preaches—and why should he not?

For the dues of his cure are the placket and pot;[338]

And ’tis right of his office poor laymen to lurch,