The rest described with like regret their dole,
And thus from parts they reason’d to the whole:
When all agreed some evil must be done,
Or rich men’s hearts grew harder than a stone.
Our easy vicar cut the matter short;
He would not listen to such vile report.
All were not thus - there govern’d in that year
A stern stout churl, an angry overseer;
A tyrant fond of power, loud, lewd, and most severe:
Him the mild vicar, him the graver clerk,