Saw'st thou euer @3Siquis@1 patch'd on @3Pauls@1 Church dore, To seeke some vacant Vicarage before? Who wants a Churchman, that can seruice sey, Read fast, and faire, his monthly Homiley? And wed, and bury, and make Christen-soules? Come to the leftside Alley of Saint @3Poules.@1 Thou seruile Foole: why could'st thou not repaire To buy a Benefice at Steeple-Faire? There moughtest thou for but a slender price, Aduouson thee with some fat benefice: Or if thee list not wait for dead mens shoo'n, Nor pray ech-morn th'Incumbents daies were doone: A thousand Patrons thither ready bring, Their new-falne Churches to the Chaffering, Stake three yeares @3Stipend:@1 no man asketh more: Go take possession of the Church-porch-doore: And ring the bels: lucke stroken in thy fist: The Parsonage is thine, or ere thou wist. Saint @3Fooles@1 of @3Gotam@1 mought thy parish bee, For this thy base and seruile @3Symonie.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FLUTE-PRIEST SONG FOR RAIN; CEREMONIAL AT THE SUN SPRING by AMY LOWELL FIRST FRUIT by ISAAC ROSENBERG A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19. THE FAIRY QUEEN PROSERPINA by THOMAS CAMPION THE COMPLAINT OF CHAUCER TO HIS EMPTY PURSE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 32 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE CHILD ALONE: 4. PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IDYLL 11. THE CYCLOPS by THEOCRITUS FRANCE; THE 18TH YEAR OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND by KENNETH SLADE ALLING |