IX.

That is to say, if your religion's Roman,

And you at Rome would do as Romans do,

According to the proverb,—although no man,

If foreign, is obliged to fast; and you,

If Protestant, or sickly, or a woman,

Would rather dine in sin on a ragout—

Dine and be d—d! I don't mean to be coarse,

But that's the penalty, to say no worse.

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