THE WANDERING PREACHER, 
 
 A Parody of the popular Song in Mr. Kenny's Come - 
 dy of “ Sweethearts and Wives f beginning — 
 
 “ Why are you wandering- here, I pray ? 
 
 An old man ask’d a maid one day.” 
 
 Why are you wandering here, I pray? 
 
 A Totham wight ask’d Charles L — we one day.* 
 Seeking the book that’s here so read ? 
 
 Good Sir, said he, I'm hither led l 
 Oh why, oh why, 
 
 Charles heard him cry, 
 
 Doctrine like yours’ the folks around 
 Now deem the false, and not the sound! 
 
 Tell me again, the wight he said, 
 
 Why are you wandering here, — for bread ? 
 
 The Foster-mg smile, so sweet and dear. 
 
 To gain, said he, I have come here. 
 
 How wise ! how wise ! 
 
 The wight he cries, 
 
 Foster- ing smiles — if he’d but feign, 
 
 And go to the Barn — Old Nick would gain! 
 
 The wight look’d grave — the preacher sly — 
 
 When I c was seen near his Barn hard by ; 
 
 The preacher look’d slyer, the wight stood dumb, 
 
 I c he hail’d the hireling saint to come. 
 
 My eye ! how high ! 
 
 Soon the wight’s cry, 
 
 Sermons like this I hope are rare, 
 
 And of such personal slang beware ! ! 
 
 A LOW OFFENDER ! 
 
 * The 28th of April, the memorable day on which, at Totham, 
 he appeared so desirous of obeying the scripture injunction, — “let 
 your moderation be known unto all men,” and of removing the 
 ‘‘slander” that had been committed upon “ good Archbishop Til- 
 lotson !” Should the reverend gentleman complain of my personalL 
 ties in the present instance, I trust that he will remember the truism 
 of the bard : — 
 
 “ The failings of others with freedom we blame, 
 
 And condemn not ourselves, though we practise the same !” 
 
 Great Totham , Oct . 1833.