Dear Friends

Michael Turyn (mturyn@psyche.mit.edu)
Mon, 23 Jul 90 18:49:14 EDT

Help, Lords and Commons!
Once more, Help!
Send us knives and daggers.
For if the Quakers be not gelt
Our mares shall have the Staggers!!

(--from ``The Four--Legged Quaker'', a seventeenth century account
of the unrestrain'd Yeti nature of an English ``Bob''. At the
time, the Quakers were just another ``kook cult'', probably the
source of the obvious confusion between them and what must have
been Ye Churche of the Sous-genie.)

Tell Woodcock, Fox, and Naylor
That Brother Green 's a Stallion
O, alack! for the hope
Of converting the Pope
When a Quaker turns Italian!
(that is, perverted---sorry about seventeenth century Political Correctness).