Not more for them than every man designed;

The welcome news is in the letter found;

The carrier's not commissioned to expound.

It speaks itself, and what it does contain,

In all things needful to be known, is plain.

In times o'ergrown with rust and ignorance,

A gainful trade their clergy did advance;

When want of learning kept the laymen low,

And none but priests were authorized to know;

When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell,