And as no one can doubt such a nicely mix'd breed Will be sure both with sinners and saints to succeed, We shall soon have the land blackening over with

swarms

Of newly-spawn'd Phill-Pots, in all sorts of forms;— Not a spot of our isle but will soon be o'errun with 'em, 'Lordships' and Graces' each black mother's-son of 'em.

This being the case, and a breed now so curious
Being likely, if multiplied thus, to grow spurious,
Some test is much wanted-and that, too, no slight

one

To tell if a Phill-Pot's the wrong breed, or right one;
And, anxious from all such impostures to screen us,
The present Right Reverend head of the genus
Has drawn up some Questions, so framed as to show
If one's Phill-Pot is really a Phill-Pot, or no;
Nor could Irving himself with his famed Polyglottism,
Evade, it is thought, this strict Test of Phill-Pottism.

We subjoin, just to show how they baffle evasion,
The Questions and Answers drawn up for th' occasion.

1. What's the Church?

A large money-establishment, given To pamper up priests, for the honour of heaven; And inspiring a zeal in each reverend man Just proportion'd to what he gets by it per ann. 2. Name the Orders.

First, Curates, the lowest in larder; Then Rectors improved much in fat and in ardour; And so on through Bishops the fervour increases, Extending its glow ev'n to nephews and nieces;

Till-waxing yet warmer, as upward its motion,—
In Primates it bursts with a blaze of devotion

Of which hungry curates have not the least notion! 3. Do you hold that all Christians who differ from you Are idolaters, heathens, and so forth ?-I do.

4. Are you ready, with St. Athanasius,' to damn Every man, woman, child of the Greek Church?—I am. 5. Can you prove, if required, that the great Irish Dan Is the 'lion's whelp' mention'd Deut. 33? ?—I can. 6. Through the whole Book of Numbers I'll thank you

to run, which the

And say

2

parson loves best ?-Number One.

So far we've the youth in Theology tried:

We shall now see how well he's with Ethics supplied.

1. What's your pretext for now taking orders?—Devo

tion.

2. And what's your sole object henceforward?—Pro

motion.

3. Do you think it much matters, when good things are

got,

By what methods we get them ?—No, certainly not. 4. Have you any slight twinge of those scruples we call 'Self-denial,' 'humility,'' shame?'-Not at all.

That will do.

Here th' Examiner closes his task;

A more promising pupil no bishop need ask:
And the Church gladly welcomes to feed on her clover
A youth who has proved himself Phill-Pott all over.

1 See a Defence of the Athanasian Creed in a letter addressed to Mr. Canning by the Rev. Henry Philpotts.

* And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp.'-Deut. xxxiii. 22.