With our late vicar, and his age the same,
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His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came:
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The like slow speech was his, the like tall slender frame.
But Jachin was the gravest man on ground,
And heard his master's jokes with look profound;
For worldly wealth this man of letters sigh'd,
And had a sprinkling of the spirit's pride;
But he was sober, chaste, devout, and just,