Encyclopaedia of English and American poetry, from Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson . se, he sent for a priest,He was wondrons godlj-, ho prayd and con- fessd:But the father, unmoved with the marks of contrition,Before absolution, imposed this condition : • You must build and endow, at your own proper charge,A church, quoth the parson, convenient and large,Where souls to the tune of four thousand and any crowding, may sit and serve God. Ill dot, cried the penitent, father, neerfear it; My estate is encumberd, but if I once clearit, The beneficed clerks sh
Encyclopaedia of English and American poetry, from Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson . se, he sent for a priest,He was wondrons godlj-, ho prayd and con- fessd:But the father, unmoved with the marks of contrition,Before absolution, imposed this condition : • You must build and endow, at your own proper charge,A church, quoth the parson, convenient and large,Where souls to the tune of four thousand and any crowding, may sit and serve God. Ill dot, cried the penitent, father, neerfear it; My estate is encumberd, but if I once clearit, The beneficed clerks should bo sweetly in-creased— Instead of one church, Id build fifty atleast. But ah ! what is man ? I speak it with sorrow,His fit of religion was gone by to-morrow ;He then huffd the doctor, and calld him to were churches to spare, and hed not give a he mentiond his vow, he cried, D—n me, Im all yesterday I was drunk with October. Sir Robert Ayton.—Ahnut 1711. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los AngelesThis book is DUE on the last date stamped below. m I xirS ) 315.
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