Bishop Fill Pots ! alias Fill Bags ! !
Now of Exeter.
The Bishop of Exeter wears a mitre and stands with his right arm out holding a satchel.
In his left hand, he holds a crosier
tied with three satchels, places over his left shoulder. A bible, with the text “Holy
Bible,” lies on the ground. The bishop steps
on the bible with his right foot. 1/32 page.
“ A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.”
Dull in the pulpit, pleasant at a feast,1
A party-writer, and a worldly priest,2
At Durham once famed Phil—p—s ruled the roast,3
The sacred pluralist and Tory boast !4
Whilst bold in bigot zeal, he swell’d the cry,5
And drilled his flock to shout “ No Popery !”6
Times changed, the Doctor, to conviction prone,7
Hail’d the new light, and quickly chang’d his tone ;8
Nor vainly changed : for, lo ! with mien austere,9
He struts a bishop, and a pamphleteer !10
Go hear him thunder forth, in self-elation,11
Isaiah’s text, with Roden’s application ;12
And, prodigal of Scripture, hear him fling13
His dread anathemas against Lord King !14
Mistaken wight, by fate condemned to shine ;15
Party-made Bishop—pamphlet-read Divine !16