Wesley Corpus

I have now largely and plainly laid before you the real ground of all the strange outcry you have heard; and am not without hope that by this fairer representation of it than you probably ever received before, both you and the clergyman you formerly mentioned may have a more favourable opinion of a good cause, though under an ill name. Whether you have or no, I shall ever acknowledge my best services to be due to yourself and your family, both for the generous assistance you have given my father, and for the invaluable advantages your scn has (under God) bestowed on, Sir, Your ever obliged and most obedient servant We fools counted his life madness. Ir aught beneath them happy souls attend Let Morgan hear the triumph of a friend, And hear well pleased. Let libertines so gay With careless indolence despise the lay ; Let critic wits, and fools for laughter born, Their verdict pass with supercilious scorn ; Let jovial crowds, by wine their senses drown’d, Stammer out censure in their frantic round ; Let yawning sluggards faint dislike display, Who, while they trust to-morrow, lose to-day ;-- Let such as these the sacred strains condemn ; For ’tis true glory to be hiss’d by them.