Poem by Samuel Butler

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy will serve as well
To propagate a church, as zeal;
As persecution and promotion
Do equally advance devotion:
So round white stones will serve, they pay,
As well as eggs to make hens lay.

1. The Godly
2. On a Club of Sots
3. Smatterers
4. Language of the Learned
5. Laborious Writers

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