Smatterers

"For his religion it was fit     To match his learning and his wit:     'Twas Presbyterian true blue;     For he was of that stubborn crew"

"Hypocrisy will serve as well     To propagate a church, as zeal;     As persecution and promotion     Do equally advance devotion:     So"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

"The house was crammed from roof to floor,     Heads piled on heads at every door;     Half dead with August's seething heat     I crowded on an"