"The Tythe Pig" engraved by J.S. Muller after Boitard, 1751."In Country Village lives a Vicar, / Fond - as all are - of Tythes and Liquor, / To Mirth his Ears are seldom Shut, / He'll Crack a Joke, and laugh at Smut; / But when his Tythes he gathers in, / True Parson then - no Coin! no Grin! / On Corn, on Hay, on Bird, on Beast, / Alike lays hold the Churlish Priest. / Hob's Wife and Sow - as Gossips tell / Both at a Time in Pieces fell; / The Parson comes, the Pig he claims / and the good Wife with Taunts inflames; / But she, quite Arch, bow'd low and smil'd, / Kept back the Pig, and held the Child: / The Priest look'd warm, the Wife look'd big, / Z[oun]ds, Sir! quoth she, no Child, no Pig."  

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