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1731
All folks who pretend to religion and grace,
Allow
there's a HELL, but dispute of the place:
But, if
HELL may by logical rules be defined
The place of the
damned -I'll tell you my mind.
Wherever the damned do
chiefly abound,
Most certainly there is HELL to be
found:
Damned poets, damned critics, damned
blockheads, damned knaves,
Damned senators bribed,
damned prostitute slaves;
Damned lawyers and judges,
damned lords and damned squires;
Damned spies and
informers, damned friends and damned liars;
Damned
villains, corrupted in every station;
Damned
time-serving priests all over the nation;
And into
the bargain I'll readily give you
Damned ignorant
prelates, and counsellors privy.
Then let us no
longer by parsons be flammed,
For we know by these
marks the place of the damned:
And HELL to be sure is
at Paris or Rome.
How happy for us that it is not at
home!
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