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bark at me . ' All at the same work , fighting the priest and the lawyer . * Jack and Jill ; ' i . e . John Bull and his wife , furiously swell the cry . The rector and the lawyer would ply their work in hell itself , if they could but get a glimpse of a burial-due or a fee to be gained there . Fall to work , priest ; assail your parishioners for your dues ; employ all the horrors that belong to your trade ; and if you should get into any difficulty , the lawyer will find out some loophole for you after all . Strip the homestead , priest ! Strip the homestead , lawyer ! Into it there , priest ! Into it there , lawyer !' ' Jack and Jill' fairl y foam at the mouth with their indignation , and even ' Hushaby baby' comes to swell the cry with his infant voice in ironical firreetinsr .
' Don ' t spare them , priest ! storm at them in your best style ! When the farmer is pushed , and holds back his tithe , the priest roars but stoutly , This is all a pretence ! When the harvest is a complete failure , tie roars out , It is all owing to your negligence ! Provisions fall short in the farmer ' s house , and the tithe is behindhand ; the priest roars out , I ve an execution to put in your house V The old lady who rode a cockhorse to Banbury Cross' is as sententious as Solomon . ' He who enriches himself out of other men ' s property must quickly
submit to take public odium for his partner / The c old woman who lived upon nothing- but victuals and drink' ( many now live without them ) must also mumble her say against the parsons . * There , do you hear the hum ( q . humbug ?) of the priest , and what do you think it is all about ? Why , turning to his own account the ingenuity and handicraft of other people . From the brains and handicraft of the layman he wrangles out the means of maintenance . And
you know well that the sound of the priest ' s voice is never heard but to cheat and benoodle the honest and industrious . ' Reynard the fox , too , starts forth from his burrow to utter his opinions . ' The public was maddened by the state of its affairs , and put on a stormy aspect . It pried into * the state of the government , and found it Had gradually got into the hands of corruption . ' ' Sermons in stones , ' ' Eggs , butter , cheese , and bread , ' speak like an oracle of the priest's motives .
* Lucre is our exciter , the wide-spread promoter of action ; art and part in and instigator to evil doings ; the secret promoter of the hoard , the secret promoter of the dishonest act , the secret promoter of the priest ' s abominations . ' The ' man of Thessaly should have been a painter , he seems to have had such an eye for description . * The rector of the parish was a man whose whole sou ] was in bis breeches pocket , and he was a perfect bugbear to the parishioners when
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Preface to the Nert Bellehdenus . 785
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 785, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/39/
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