~2 l'ODIB OJ' CRARAC'tll'll, A!fD ~BOU8.
Well ought a priest eWWDple for to give
By hia own cleanneaa ho\lr hia aheep ahoald live.
He never aet his benedoe to hire,
Leaving hia dockencumber'd in the mire 1
And ran to London unto Saint Paul's,
To aeek himself a. chauntery for souls,
Or with & brotherhood to be enroll'd;
But dwelt at home, and guarded well hie fold,
So thAt it ahould not by the wolf miscarry ;
He waa a ahepberd. and no mercenary.
And though he holy were, s.nd virtuona,
He ws.a to sinful men naught unpiteou.a;
Not ofrepros.ch imperious or malign;
But in hia tes.cbing discreet and benign.
To dr&w them on to he&ven, by fair.neae
.And good eumple, ws.a his baaineBB:
But were there &ny pereon obetlnate,
Were be oflofty or oflow astate,
Him would he shArp reprove I wia :
A better priest I trow there nowhere ia.
He waited not on pomp_ or reverence,
Nor ms.de himself a epioM conscience.
The lore of Christ and his apostles twelve
He taught: but, fi.ret, he followed it himaelve.
CSAoOJta. (Jfor4miw.l.)tgt llllagt Jt.eacqu.
Nua yonder copse, wheJ:"e once the garden smiled,
And still where many a garden ftower grows wild,
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose, ·
A mau be ws.a to all the countt'Y dear,
And p11118ing rich with forty pou.nds a year;
Remote from towns he nm his godly race,
Nor e'er had cbll.llged, nor wiah'd to change hia pla~i
Uu:practised he to fawn, or seek for power,
By doctrines faahion'd to the varying honr;
Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize,
More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
His hou.ae was known to all the vagrant trai~
He chid their wand'rings, bnt relieved their pain ;
The long-remember'd beggar waa hia guest,
Whose beaM, descending, swept hie aged breaat;