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Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago.
— John Byrom
Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago.
Some say, that Signor Bononcini, 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born.
Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
As clear as a whistle.
The point is plain as a pike-staff.
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow, Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow.
Were I a king (God bless me) I should hate Whenever theirs the Bible went beyond.
Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood, Such an All-perfect Being could not be.
From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs By Goodness us'd, Eternal and Unmade.
Endless Perfections after all conspire, Is One Divine, Immutable Good Will.
The Sabbath was made for Man; not Man for the Sabbath.
Of true Religion Works of Mercy seem Of brotherly Compassion shown, or not.
Here, all ye learned, full of all Dispute, His Love is Heav'n, and Want of It is Hell.
My spirit longs for Thee, Of so divine a Guest.
No rest is to be found And send it from above.
God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) God bless us all! That's quite another thing!
Of all Religions if we take a View, Unless we love it purely for His Sake.
The One Unbounded, Undivided Good, And have no more Religion than a Beast.
All which she entreats, for His Sake, to be done, For an hearty "Amen" to this Catholic Pray'r!
This short Supplication, or Litany, read Of Glory to God and Salvation to Man.
