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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM CXXXVI.

[To serve five churches in a day]

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

To serve five churches in a day,
The curate mounts his steed;
Thro' towns, prayers, sermons, wings his way,
And all three-quarter's speed.
All did I say?—why then I said
A thing beside my text;
The last with double haste is sped,—
Because the dinner's next.