They say there was always a middlin ' few Pharisees to be seen on the Marsh . Impident as rabbits , they was . They 'd dance on the nakid roads in the nakid daytime ; they 'd flash their liddle green lights along the diks , comin ' an ' goin ' , like honest smugglers . Yes , an ' times they 'd lock the church doors against parson an ' clerk of Sundays . ' ` That ` ud be smugglers layin ' in the lace or the brandy till they could run it out o ' the Marsh . I 've told my woman so , ' said Hobden . ` I 'll lay she did n't belieft it , then -- not if she was a Whitgift . A won ` erful choice place for Pharisees , the Marsh , by all accounts , till Queen Bess 's father he come in with his Reformatories . ' ` Would that be a Act of Parliament like ? ' Hobden asked . ` Sure-ly . Ca n't do nothing in Old England without Act , Warrant an ' Summons . He got his Act allowed him , an ' , they say , Queen Bess 's father he used the parish churches something shameful . Justabout tore the gizzards out of I dunnamany . Some folk in England they held with ` en ; but some they saw it different , an ' it eended in 'em takin ' sides an ' burnin ' each other no bounds , accordin ' which side was top , time bein ' . That tarrified the Pharisees : for Goodwill among Flesh an ' Blood is meat an ' drink to 'em , an ' ill-will is poison . ' ` Same as bees , ' said the Bee Boy . ` Bees wo n't stay by a house where there 's hating . ' ` True , ' said Tom . ` This Reformatories tarrified the Pharisees same as the reaper goin ' round a last stand o ' wheat tarrifies rabbits .
They packed into the Marsh from all parts , and they says , `` Fair or foul , we must flit out o ' this , for Merry XXXXX 's done with , an ' we 're reckoned among the Images . '' '
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