None other mends they get of me.
[149] sweep.
[150] be annoyed.
[151] curse or cry out.
[152] draggle-tails.
[153] hatched.
[154] houghs.
[155] slut.
[156] scolding, brawling.
[157] burgh towns.
[158] scoffs.
[159] cleanse.
BISHOP JOSEPH HALL.
(1574-1656.)
[VII.] ON SIMONY.
This satire levels a rebuke at the Simoniacal traffic in livings, then openly practised by public advertisement affixed to the door of St. Paul's. "Si Quis" (if anyone) was the first word of these advertisements. Dekker, in the Gull's Hornbook, speaks of the "Siquis door of Paules", and in Wroth's Epigrams (1620) we read, "A Merry Greek set up a Siquis late". This satire forms the Fifth of the Second Book of the Virgidemiarum.
Saw'st thou ever Siquis patcht on Pauls Church door
To seek some vacant vicarage before?
Who wants a churchman that can service say,
Read fast and fair his monthly homily?