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Is not this a perfect parallel with the tythe scenes in Ireland ? Is it not in reality a paraphrase from the speeches of the Reverend Marcus Beresford ? Our old friend ' Harry Parry , ' is also converted into a most learned <¦ schoolmaster . ' He no longer talks of * marrying / but irons out the sons of the church in good set terms .
Domineer over them , ( the operatives , ) screw them up , you gentle , men of the lucre-loving fraternity ; make them swallow your idle inventions ; teach them to submit to your fees for burying their bodies , and to your usurious loanings . ' What treasures have we lost till the ( per legem terra ) Duke of Roxburghe dragged them into day . W ho would have thought of * Jack Sprat / simple as he is , being such a radical demagogue ?
In the doctrine of the priest , it is righteous to exact the last farthing of your claims upon another , ( Marcus Beresford and Mr . his curate , to wit , ) in that of the lawyer it is righteous to hold fast by what you have , while you take the highest interest for it upon the most abundant security ; and both of them twist about the law of God to their own purposes with such sleight and plausibility that they are mistaken by the vulgar for holy saints instead of worldly-minded
rogues . c Robin-a-Bobbin' is as hard upon the priests as Ebenezer Elliot is upon the corn-law men . * Rob-toil , thou curse of our barns ! you that fatten like a hog by other men ' s labour . The fellow says , with an arrogant tone , I have a
right to my dues ; away with your produce to my barn and store : he bullies the sharp ones ; he bullies the flats ; he says , with a grave face , Be sure you never forget to do your utmost for the priest ; whine and beg for him ; hoard up for him . And to him who is setting out his tythe he cries out , Be sure you don ' t demean your Bible by making my lots less than a good tenth . '
Our friend Bellenden has transformed cock-a-doodle-doo' into a ' fiddlestick' with a vengeance . It will set the lawyers dancing with rage at the irony . A lawyer is supposed to be speaking to an operative . 4 Dolt of a peasant ! your life is a hell upon earth ; you that are such a fool as to take delight in working for cm honest livelihood . I find a better one in the plunder ot other people ' s property ; while you , if you swerve a hair ' s breadth from the law , are treated as a thief and punished /
' Little Jack Horner , ' too , must put lance in rest , and have a tilt at the ' beer justices / * The public ' s bane , Justice Allproper , crammed full of law there , obtains by his judgment , along with his bread , every man ' s curse . He sponges a share oat of the winnings the party he decides in favour of draws from the decision , and while he grows fat with the traffic , he exclaims . Oh I what an excellent milch-cow the clodhopper ia ( what good squeezing there iain thia sponge )/ ' Little dogs , and all , Tray , Blanch , and Sweetheart , see they
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784 ; Preface to the New Bcllendenus *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/38/
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