A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of The Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases, Terms and Nursery Rhymes
"The hard working one is the provision store, the Holy One the gentle [maggot, the torpid eater of it]; the consequence is a continual struggle between the two; the Holy One (Priest) insures contention with the homestead by his vexations exactions; the hard-working one perseveres in his habitual course; the Holy Wafer Man (Friar) bellows, teazes, pinches (straightens for provision). You of the industrious class have but to will it and there's an end to the whole Friarly Gang (the intruded Friarhood). Show the Holy One that you are up to the mark (behave like one who knows what he is about)! Roar out the grievance (the nuisance) his being here is to you all (din in his ears the outcry of the plague he is to you)! All at once this one's jaw comes to a stand-still (all of a sudden this kind of defiance ceases); the rabble has no courage (there is no relying upon the cry of a mob). The whole village (place in point) falls into accord with this vapouring fellow; the Cloddy (fool, idiot) submits (behaves himself as usual); the Cowl (Friar) succeeds (has his way), in a little time we (all of us) and all our property will become the booty of heresy (false doctrine, superstition); so let us see they are out of sight at once [let us get rid of them]!"