O what a fine coat and cloke for an hypocrite will a text of scripture, properly applied, make at any time in the eyes of the pious!how easily are the good folks taken in!]and all my delight, added he, for some years past, has been in cultivating my paternal estate.

Maybe the possessive form of address: "Mon general," "mon capitaine," helps the idea, which our men cloke in other and curter phrases.

Yet let me tell you, where Religion Is made a cloke to our bad purposes They seldom have succes.