What frenzy makes of rev'rend grandsires Ecclesiastical drawcansirs ! Discretion 's to Polemic Courage Tuning to base or treble key 'em ; Thus Zeal, not pepper'd with discretion, ‡ Noxious alike, has often rent The bowels of th' Establishment: * The better part of valour is discretion. Shakspeare. Hen. IV. Parti. + A most irritable and contentious clan. See the relation of its fierce and tragical rencounter with Colonels Mawl-chitterling, and Cut-pudding, the younger; as given by Master Francis Rabelais, Book IV. c. xli. Vis consilî expers. Hor. Od. Lib. III. Od. iv. Each varying blast of doctrine vain Inflames her disputatious train; Oft vex her frame intestine drubs, And controversial cholic wrings The spawn of Godwin and Tom Paine; That, while they "Orthodoxy" bawl, While they protest "our Faith's in danger," Who, hank'ring for the Church's prog, "Who's bound in duty to discard her "Because she excludes them from her larder, # "And keeps for her own pamper'd chits Is full of inward light and grace, * Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge, &c. Lear, Act III. Scene iv. + See Dr. Priestley's exultation while he is anticipating the overthrow of the Hierarchy, and the grand explosion of our Church Establishment by those trains of gunpowder which he has been properly disposing in order to blow up its old Building of Error and Superstition. Priestley's Importance of Free Enquiry, &c. p. 40. &c. Concludes to hide would be a scandal The flame of Reformation-candle Beneath a bushel or a bed; * So from brass candlestic, his head, And light us to discern each rent Pious munificence arraigns, Vows betwixt benefice and brains He cannot find the least conjunction, That cauliflower wig the wearer Serves for a cloud t' envelop error; Short cassoc's figleaf to defect And nakedness of intellect; And blocks from timber-yards and quarries Are symbols of church dignitaries. Sectarians thus the church assail, (Losers are privileg❜d to rail) * Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestic? Luke iv. 22. And sacrilegiously make sport Of Grizzle-wig and Cassoc short; If beards of kings make jerkins' trimming, t If wig that grac'd a judge's nob Moult to an under-sheriff's bob; And if, oblivious of its buckle, That bob to serve a shoe-black truckle; § *See Baron Monchaussen's Travels. + See the barbarous requisition which Ryance made to King Arthur, for his beard to serve (together with the beards of eleven vanquished princes) for fringe to his mantle.-Old Ballad. "When Arthur at Camelford kept his court royal."—Percy. "I fear," said the late Lord Chesterfield, complaining of ill health and incapacity to Mrs. Ann Pitt-" I fear, Madam, that I am growing an old woman.”—“ I am glad of it, my Lord, I was afraid you were growing an old man, which, your Lordship knows to be a much worse thing." § of the evanescent nature of sublunary grandeur we have a melancholy exemplification in the fate of a Judge's cast-off Perriwig, whose decline and fall may be easily traced from the bench to the council-table, and from thence to the living blocks of under-sheriff, clerk of the court, and javelin-man, till it is at |