Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR


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First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean
Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year.
Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LUKE PREACH-ILL admires what we laymen can mean;
That thus by our profit and pleasure are swayed,
He has but three livings, and would be a dean;
His wife died this year, he has married his maid.

To suppress all his carnal desires in their birth,
At all hours a lusty young hussy is near;
And, to take off his thoughts from the things of this earth,
He can be content with two thousand a year.





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