But 'cause his coming was so tardy, These same Etolians grew fool-hardy; And though he say'd both priest and church, They left their saviour in the lurch; Just as the bishops left their maker, And shunn'd the passage through Long Acre, 'Tis dang'rous, cries each wary chap, To venture through the Devil's Gap [6] , The houses on both sides are all So old, that, like the Duke, they'll fall, And crush, perhaps, each reverend sot That runs where nothing's to be got; And Satan, always on the watch The sons of any church to catch, Dines rarely when his cook can dish up A rev'rend brawny well-fed bishop. — from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775
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