It is as follows:--
'EPIGRAM, _occasioned by a religious dispute at Bath_.
'On Reason, Faith, and Mystery high,
Two wits harangue the table;
B----y believes he knows not why.
N---- swears 'tis all a fable.
Peace, coxcombs, peach, and both agree,
N----, kiss they empty brother:
Religion laughs at foes like thee,
And dreads a friend like t'other.'
BOSWELL. The disputants are supposed to have been Beau Nash and Bentley,
the son of the doctor, and the friend of Walpole. Croker. John Wesley in
his _Journal_, i. 186, tells how he once silences Nash.
[892] See ante, ii. 105.
[893] Waller, in his _Divine Poesie_, canto first, has the same thought
finely expressed:--
'The Church triumphant, and the Church below,
In songs of praise their present union show;
Their joys are full; our expectation long,
In life we differ, but we join in song;
Angels and we assisted by this art,
May sing together, though we dwell apart.'
BOSWELL.
[894] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, post, v.
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