The youth attended; then was all prepared:
For the same servant, by his lord’s command,
A paper offer’d to his trembling hand:
“No more!” he cried: “disdains he to afford
One kind expression, one consoling word?”
With troubled spirit he began to read
That “In the Church my lord could not succeed;”
Who had “to peers of either kind applied,
And was with dignity and grace denied;
While his own livings were by men possess’d,