[7624]. Luke vi, 37.
[7701]. 1 Cor. iii, 19.
[7709]. Luke ii, 15.
[7714]. Matth. ii, 1.
[7721]. Luke ii, 7.
[7779]. Psalm xxxi, 1.
[7795]. Luke vi, 39. The ignorance and inefficiency of the parish priests appear to have become proverbial in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the latter century a canon of Lilleshul in Shropshire, named John Myrk, or Myrkes, composed an English poem, or rather metrical treatise, on their duties, which he commences by applying to them this same aphorism of our Saviour:—
God seyth hymself, as wryten we fynde,
That whenne the blynde ledeth the blynde,
Into the dyche they fallen boo,