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 CCXX.
[A Careful priest, the story goes]
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.
A Careful priest, the story goes,
For fear he should forget,
Was wont his sermons to inclose
Within a cabbage-net.
For fear he should forget,
Was wont his sermons to inclose
Within a cabbage-net.
What at the bottom he drew out,
He at the top put in;
Sure thus to bring the year about,
End right, and right begin.
He at the top put in;
Sure thus to bring the year about,
End right, and right begin.
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Meanwhile his audience part by part,
As part by part he took,
Could tell each text as well by heart,
As he could by the book.
As part by part he took,
Could tell each text as well by heart,
As he could by the book.
Thus all their regular order kept,
In pulpit and in pew;
And so he preach'd, and so they slept,
The year, and cabbage-net thro'!
In pulpit and in pew;
And so he preach'd, and so they slept,
The year, and cabbage-net thro'!
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