testament quotes

Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an'flat; I don't want to go no furder Than myTestyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an'fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

-James Russell Lowell
  'A Letter'. In the Boston Courier,17  Jun. Collected in The Biglow Papers, First Series (1848), no.1.