We want more Churches and more Clergymen.—Bishop of London's late Charge.
Rectorum numerum, terris pereuntibus, augent.—Claudian in Eutrop.
Come, give us more Livings and Rectors,
For richer no realm ever gave;
But why, ye unchristian objectors,
Do ye ask us how many we crave?
Oh, there can't be too many rich Livings
For souls of the Pluralist kind,
Who, despising old Cocker's misgivings,
To numbers can ne'er be confin'd.
Count the cormorants hovering about,