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The Gothic looks solemn, / The plain Doric column / Supports an old Bishop and Crozier; / The mouldering arch, / Shaded o'er by a larch, / Stands next door to Wilson the Hosier.
Vice, -- that is, by turns, --
O'er pale faces mourns / The black tassell'd trencher and common hat; / The charity boy sings, / The Steeple-bell rings / And as for the Chancellor -- dominat.
There are plenty of trees, / And plenty of ease, / And plenty of fat deer for Parsons; / And when it is venison, / Short is the benison, --
Then each on a leg or thigh fastens.