Book I, 21: On Church-contemners

Those Church-contemners, that can easily waigh
The profit of a Sermon with a Play;
Whose testy stomacks can digest, as well,
A profer'd Injury, as a Sermon-bell;
That say unwonted Pray'rs with the like wills,
As queazy Patients take their loathed Pills:
To what extremity would they be driven,
If God, in Iudgement, should but give them Heaven.