To lighten the air after reports of heavy parliamentary debates, this charming verse about marriage in Heaven appears at the end of the news from London.
“Cries Celia to a Reverend Dean,
What Reason can be given,
Since Marriage is a Holy Thing,
That there is none in Heaven.
There are no Women, he reply’d:
She quick returns the Jest;
Women there are, but I’m afraid,
They cannot find a Priest.”
Stamford Mercury 17th March, 1737.