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Songs Of The Ceaft.
Harry Carey ' s Poems , however , 1729 ? 3 rd edition , m the following : — "THE MODERATOR BETWEEN THE FREE MASONS AND GORMOGONS . " The Masons and the Gormogoiis Are laughing at one another , While all mankind are laughing at them Then why do they rnake such a pother ?
61 They hait their hook for simple -gulls , And truth with ham they smother ; But when they ' ve taken in their eulls , Why then 'tis '¦——Welcome Brother !"
The partieiilar disputes betweien the parties referred to by this poem , it is nbt easy to ascertain . Perhaps the humorous writer alludes to some sehisrn or dissension now forgotten . Mr . Gray , in one of his letters to Mr . "W " alpote , says , "I reckon next week to hear you are a Free-Mason , or a Gormogon at least , " 4 th edition , p . 188 . With respect to the letter in the Gentleman s Magazine , we shall beg to offer a few remarks . First of the Order of " Gregorians "—and when we stumbled on this title , knowing as we do something of church music , and the present division of churchmen into Gregorians and Anti-Gregorians , we were a little puzzled as to what such a sect could have in common with Freemasonry—but our readers
need be under no apprehension on this score , we are not about to enter on the vexed question of the ecclesiastical tones . The " Gregorians" in question , from whatever cause they assumed their name , had nothing in common with the archaeological churchmen of our own day ; indeed , all that we have been able to discover about them is , that one Parmerie Maltus , who was curate of St . Mary Magdalen , Bermondsey , and subsequently of Wymeswould , Leicestershire ,
preached a sermon before the Gregoriaus on Romans xii . 10 , which was published in quarto in 1752 ; and we also presume the celebrated Henry Carey was one of their members , from his " Musical Century , in One Hundred English Ballads , on various Subjects and Occasions , adapted to several Characters and Incidents in Human Life , and
calculated for innocent Conversation , Mirth , and Instruction , The Words and Music of the whole by Henry Carey . Two vols , folio , London : 1737 , " in which the " Gregorian Constitution Song" appears for
from Brook-street to Haberdashers' Hall , where an elegant entertainment was provided for them , and the evening was concluded with that harmony and decency peculiar to the society . " Some time before the Society began their cavalcade , a number of « hoecleaners , chimney-sweepers , & c , on foot and in carts , with ridiculous pageants carried before them , went in procession to Temple-Bar , by way of jest on the Free-Masons , at the expense , as we hear , of one hundred pounds sterling , which occasioned a great deal of diversion , " Ibid ., May 3 rd , 1744 . " Yesterday several of the mock-Masons were taken up by the constable empowered to impress men for his Majesty ' s service , and confined till they can be examined hy the justices ; "
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Songs Of The Ceaft.
Harry Carey ' s Poems , however , 1729 ? 3 rd edition , m the following : — "THE MODERATOR BETWEEN THE FREE MASONS AND GORMOGONS . " The Masons and the Gormogoiis Are laughing at one another , While all mankind are laughing at them Then why do they rnake such a pother ?
61 They hait their hook for simple -gulls , And truth with ham they smother ; But when they ' ve taken in their eulls , Why then 'tis '¦——Welcome Brother !"
The partieiilar disputes betweien the parties referred to by this poem , it is nbt easy to ascertain . Perhaps the humorous writer alludes to some sehisrn or dissension now forgotten . Mr . Gray , in one of his letters to Mr . "W " alpote , says , "I reckon next week to hear you are a Free-Mason , or a Gormogon at least , " 4 th edition , p . 188 . With respect to the letter in the Gentleman s Magazine , we shall beg to offer a few remarks . First of the Order of " Gregorians "—and when we stumbled on this title , knowing as we do something of church music , and the present division of churchmen into Gregorians and Anti-Gregorians , we were a little puzzled as to what such a sect could have in common with Freemasonry—but our readers
need be under no apprehension on this score , we are not about to enter on the vexed question of the ecclesiastical tones . The " Gregorians" in question , from whatever cause they assumed their name , had nothing in common with the archaeological churchmen of our own day ; indeed , all that we have been able to discover about them is , that one Parmerie Maltus , who was curate of St . Mary Magdalen , Bermondsey , and subsequently of Wymeswould , Leicestershire ,
preached a sermon before the Gregoriaus on Romans xii . 10 , which was published in quarto in 1752 ; and we also presume the celebrated Henry Carey was one of their members , from his " Musical Century , in One Hundred English Ballads , on various Subjects and Occasions , adapted to several Characters and Incidents in Human Life , and
calculated for innocent Conversation , Mirth , and Instruction , The Words and Music of the whole by Henry Carey . Two vols , folio , London : 1737 , " in which the " Gregorian Constitution Song" appears for
from Brook-street to Haberdashers' Hall , where an elegant entertainment was provided for them , and the evening was concluded with that harmony and decency peculiar to the society . " Some time before the Society began their cavalcade , a number of « hoecleaners , chimney-sweepers , & c , on foot and in carts , with ridiculous pageants carried before them , went in procession to Temple-Bar , by way of jest on the Free-Masons , at the expense , as we hear , of one hundred pounds sterling , which occasioned a great deal of diversion , " Ibid ., May 3 rd , 1744 . " Yesterday several of the mock-Masons were taken up by the constable empowered to impress men for his Majesty ' s service , and confined till they can be examined hy the justices ; "