Note 201 — COMMENCEMENT OF OUTDOOR PREACHING. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The following abusive doggrel was published in the London Daily Post:—
ON MR. WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING IN MOORFIELDS, NEAR BEDLAM.
"Map, Ward, and Taylor did our wonder raise, Now Whitefield has the giddy rabble's praise; Infatuated crowds to hear him flock, As once to France for Mississippi stock; A proof more madmen out of Bedlam dwell, Than are confined within that spacious cell."