Is it an empty name, and nought but sound?
Is it, above all other sins, the worst?
By man despised, and by God accurs’d?
If that’s the case, and scripture we believe,
What was the crime alledg’d to grandam Eve?
What was the fruit the Tree of Knowledge shew’d,
And made her break her promise to her God?
What in the serpent could o’er her prevail;
Was the great EVIL in his head or TAIL?
The Devil himself must clear up the dispute,