cantoribus

Updated: June 1, 2025

'Pretty Partridges, indeed! and nice game for a parish clerk! cried the lady, returning. 'I wonder, so I do, when I look at him, and think of his goings on, how he can have the assurance to sit under the minister, and look the congregation in the face, and tune his throat, and sing the blessed psalms. 'You are not to wonder, Madam; believe the sage, who says, omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard