Charles Neaves

“ A gloom all our thoughts shall invest, Such as Calvin would call over-rigid, With sermons from morning to night, We'll strive to be decent and dreary: To preachers a praise and delight, Who ne'er think that sermons can weary. All tradesmen cry up their own wares ”

“ The Tanner is always for leather; The Smith still for iron would go; The Schoolmaster stands up for teaching; And the Parson would have you to know, There's nothing on earth like his preaching. The face of kind Nature is fair ”

“ What though a good precept we strain Till hateful and hurtful we make it! What though, in thus pulling the rein, We may draw it as tight as to break it! Abroad we forbid folks to roam, For fear they get social or frisky ”