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So perfect is the [Minister's] schemes, He who from [France?] does take his schemes, And time to have it understood, His sermon cannot but be good ; If he will needs be preaching stuff, No time indeed is short enough; E'en let him read it like a letter The sooner it is done the better. But for a man who has a head Of whom it may with truth be said, That on occasion he can raise A just sermon, a [mother?] phrase; For such a one to man alone Tumbling his accents o'er his tongue, Shows only that a man [at once?] May be a scholar and a dunce. In point of Sermons tis confess'd Our English Clergy make the best; But this [illegible], we must confess. Not from the pulpit, but the [press?]. They manage with disjointed shall, The matter well, the man nor ill; And, what seems [illegible] at first They make the best and preach the worst. Would men but speak as well as write, Both faculties would then unite The [illegible] action being taught To show the inward strength of thought; Now to do this, our short hand school Lays down this plain and generous rule.... Take time enough, all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places [horizontal line of 12 cursive stylized "H"'s, centered on the page]