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I am, I own, a presbyterian whig,—
But not, for this, a puritanic prig:
And was not Boswell educated too,
By father and by mother, a True Blue?
The worthy judge esteem'd the kirk so pure,—

It is said Lord Auchinleck, who liked a play of words, used to say, The kirk must be kept poor, that she may continue pure.


And poor, to keep her purity secure:
And, said the youth himself, the worthy saint,
My mother, with the good Confession, paint.

Mr. Boswell said the Confession of Faith was the proper symbol for his pious mother, and that she would have made an excellent wife of a clergyman.


And is this man, th' admirer, too, of Blair,
The patron of a Dun, the judge's heir,

Late minister of Achinleck, a true blue, author of sermons, with notes, which discover a good deal of humour, as well as zeal for orthodoxy, &c.


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Become a warm episcopalian tory,
Averse to whigs, and presbyterian glory?
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