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Mr Blake was a regular out and out hardened sinner	A
Who was quite out of the pale of Christianity so to speak	B
He was in the habit of smoking a long pipe and drinking a glass of	C
grog on a Sunday after dinner	A
And seldom thought of going to church more than twice or if Good	D
Friday or Christmas Day happened to come in it three times a	E
week	B
	-
He was quite indifferent as to the particular kinds of dresses	F
That the clergyman wore at church where he used to go to pray	G
And whatever he did in the way of relieving a chap's distresses	H
He always did in a nasty sneaking underhanded hole and corner	A
sort of way	G
	-
I have known him indulge in profane ungentlemanly emphatics	H
When the Protestant Church has been divided on the subject of the	E
proper width of a chasuble's hem	I
I have even known him to sneer at albs and as for dalmatics	H
Words can't convey an idea of the contempt he expressed for THEM	I
	-
He didn't believe in persons who not being well off themselves	H
are obliged to confine their charitable exertions to collecting	J
money from wealthier people	K
And looked upon individuals of the former class as ecclesiastical	K
hawks	H
He used to say that he would no more think of interfering with his	H
priest's robes than with his church or his steeple	K
And that he did not consider his soul imperilled because somebody	L
over whom he had no influence whatever chose to dress himself up	M
like an exaggerated GUY FAWKES	H
	-
This shocking old vagabond was so unutterably shameless	H
That he actually went a courting a very respectable and pious	H
middle aged sister by the name of BIGGS	H
She was a rather attractive widow whose life as such had always	H
been particularly blameless	H
Her first husband had left her a secure but moderate competence	H
owing to some fortunate speculations in the matter of figs	H
	-
She was an excellent person in every way and won the respect even	N
of MRS GRUNDY	L
She was a good housewife too and wouldn't have wasted a penny if	O
she had owned the Koh i noor	A
She was just as strict as he was lax in her observance of Sunday	G
And being a good economist and charitable besides she took all	P
the bones and cold potatoes and broken pie crusts and candle ends	H
when she had quite done with them and made them into an	Q
excellent soup for the deserving poor	A
	-
I am sorry to say that she rather took to BLAKE that outcast of	C
society	L
And when respectable brothers who were fond of her began to look	R
dubious and to cough	S
She would say Oh my friends it's because I hope to bring this	H
poor benighted soul back to virtue and propriety	L
And besides the poor benighted soul with all his faults was	H
uncommonly well off	T
	-
And when MR BLAKE'S dissipated friends called his attention to the	E
frown or the pout of her	A
Whenever he did anything which appeared to her to savour of an	Q
unmentionable place	H
He would say that she would be a very decent old girl when all	P
that nonsense was knocked out of her	A
And his method of knocking it out of her is one that covered him	U
with disgrace	H
	-
She was fond of going to church services four times every Sunday	G
and four or five times in the week and never seemed to pall of	C
them	I
So he hunted out all the churches within a convenient distance that	V
had services at different hours so to speak	B
And when he had married her he positively insisted upon their going	J
to all of them	I
So they contrived to do about twelve churches every Sunday and if	O
they had luck from twenty two to twenty three in the course of the	E
week	B
	-
She was fond of dropping his sovereigns ostentatiously into the	E
plate and she liked to see them stand out rather conspicuously	L
against the commonplace half crowns and shillings	H
So he took her to all the charity sermons and if by any	L
extraordinary chance there wasn't a charity sermon anywhere he	L
would drop a couple of sovereigns one for him and one for her	A
into the poor box at the door	A
And as he always deducted the sums thus given in charity from the	E
housekeeping money and the money he allowed her for her bonnets	H
and frillings	H
She soon began to find that even charity if you allow it to	W
interfere with your personal luxuries becomes an intolerable bore	A
	-
On Sundays she was always melancholy and anything but good society	L
For that day in her household was a day of sighings and sobbings	H
and wringing of hands and shaking of heads	H
She wouldn't hear of a button being sewn on a glove because it was	H
a work neither of necessity nor of piety	L
And strictly prohibited her servants from amusing themselves or	A
indeed doing anything at all except dusting the drawing rooms	H
cleaning the boots and shoes cooking the parlour dinner waiting	J
generally on the family and making the beds	H
But BLAKE even went further than that and said that people should	D
do their own works of necessity and not delegate them to persons	H
in a menial situation	X
So he wouldn't allow his servants to do so much as even answer a	E
bell	Y
Here he is making his wife carry up the water for her bath to the	E
second floor much against her inclination	X
And why in the world the gentleman who illustrates these ballads	H
has put him in a cocked hat is more than I can tell	Y
	-
After about three months of this sort of thing taking the smooth	Z
with the rough of it	A2
Blacking her own boots and peeling her own potatoes was not her	A
notion of connubial bliss	H
MRS BLAKE began to find that she had pretty nearly had enough of	C
it	A2
And came in course of time to think that BLAKE'S own original	K
line of conduct wasn't so much amiss	H
	-
And now that wicked person that detestable sinner BELIAL BLAKE	B2
his friends and well wishers call him for his atrocities	H
And his poor deluded victim whom all her Christian brothers	H
dislike and pity so	H
Go to the parish church only on Sunday morning and afternoon and	C2
occasionally on a week day and spend their evenings in connubial	K
fondlings and affectionate reciprocities	H
And I should like to know where in the world or rather out of it	A2
they expect to go	H

William Schwenck Gilbert

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