priest-like

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If not a beast-like, yet a priest-like zeal. And sad it is to think he should feel so, My candid reader, both for you and me. For if things take a natural course you know, Why they may chance to shock your modesty, If you have any: yet, indeed, I trow To be without it is almost an oddity, 'Tis common now-a-days; though folks 'tis said Ne'er fail to doff it when they go to bed.

Various - L'Illustration, No. 0012, 20 Mai 1843