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    A HUDIBRASTIC SATIRE * Who shall describe in language sage The present wonder-working age ; Shrewd Butler in his Hudibras ' Says his the Age of Whipping was , So much did public taste incline To wholesome birch-broom discipline That youths and maids by a fix'd rule Wpre whipp' ^ at home and eke at school , An , d sometimes whether in fault or not Their tencler skins a dressing got . Witn Eton boys ' tis still the custom

    For tutor-priests with birch to dust ' em , And priests of every time and nation IJave preach'd up corporal flagellation ; The Catholic Roman , more defensibly , Lash'd his awn carcase , sound—and sensibly , 'Tis certain those of heathen Rome Oft gave the Vestal Virgins some ; Qwr t | ir « and soldiers , now of it Almost engross the benefit , * Although ' tis helcl thrqugbou ^ the nation In universal execration .

    Who says that ' tis an Age of Cant Shows that his head doth something want , Calltl prudence . 'Twould pu , t in a fry Many a tract society . And thee , St Andrew Agony . Who says ' tig wicked Belial ' s Age > Would most sectarians enrage ; 'Twould be , a , t best , return unciyil i For all their tussles with tfye fleyil ; 'Twould stir the bile of Muggletonjan , Of Swedenborgian , Sandemohian ,

    Of Biryanite , Southcotian , Thumper , Of Brownfte , Quaker , Shaker , Jumper , And that which we may safely call The High Church Evangelical , And many more who ' ve left her throne - Scarcely a leg to stand upon , So tiQa * $ y hay $ they & > ne batjte To spoil her trade in Human Cattle , And in the fight such honour won Her pccugfttiQn « nearly gqpeu

    • * tyhr lads , tell ma when was the wit ttoat God , gave ye ,, , When ye sold youneWei first to the Army and Navy ?" Jfotany Bay MelogMes , by Dr Soutkey .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/42/