Stake three years stipend: no man asketh more.
Go, take possession of the Church porch door,
And ring thy bells; luck stroken in thy fist
The parsonage is thine, or ere thou wist.
Saint Fool's of Gotam[162] mought thy parish be
For this thy base and servile Simony.
[160] baptize.
[161] newly fallen in, through the death of the incumbent.
[162] Referring to Andrew Borde's book, The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham.
[VIII.] THE DOMESTIC TUTOR'S POSITION.
This satire forms the Sixth of Book II. of the Virgidemiarum, and is regarded as one of Bishop Hall's best. See the Return from Parnassus and Parrot's Springes for Woodcocks (1613) for analogous references to those occurring in this piece.
A gentle squire would gladly entertain