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THE INSATIABLE PRIEST by MATTHEW PRIOR

First Line: LUKE PREACH-ILL ADMIRES WHAT WE LAYMEN CAN MEAN
Last Line: HE CAN BE CONTENT WITH TWO THOUSAND A YEAR.
Subject(s): BIRTH; CLERGY; DEATH; MARRIAGE; CHILD BIRTH; MIDWIFERY; PRIESTS; RABBIS; MINISTERS; BISHOPS; DEAD, THE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
LUKE PREACH-ILL admires what we laymen can mean;
That thus by our profit and pleasure are swayed,
He has but three livings, and would be a dean;
His wife died this year, he has married his maid.

To suppress all his carnal desires in their birth,
At all hours a lusty young hussy is near;
And, to take off his thoughts from the things of this earth,
He can be content with two thousand a year.



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