Whose age, and what was better still, whose nation
And climate, stopp'd all scandal (now and then):—
At home it might have given her some vexation;
But where thermometers sunk down to ten,
Or five or one, or zero, she could never
Believe that virtue thaw'd before the river.'
O for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh for a hymn