The devil cannot stop their mouths,
But they will talk of such uncouths
All that ever they ken
Against spiritual men."
I am unable to quote more than a few lines from ROY'S Satire. At the close of a long paragraph of details an advocate of the clergy ventures to say that the bad among them are a minority. His friend answers:—
"Make the company great or small,
Among a thousand find thou shall
Scant one chaste of body or mind."
[207] Answer of the Bishops to the Commons' Petition: Rolls House MS.
[208] Joanna Leman notatur officio quod non venit ad ecclesiam parochialem; et dicit se nolle accipere panem benedictum a manibus rectoris; et vocavit eum "horsyn preste."—HALE, p. 99.