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Dr. Primrose, in his adversity, and Parson Adams are specimens of the better type of this class of clergy, and it is to be feared that Parson Trulliber is not a very unfair specimen of the worst. There is an odd illustration of the immeasurable distance which was supposed to separate the bishop from the curate in Cradock's 'Reminiscences. Bishop Warburton was to preach in St.
"When she had ta'en the mantle, And put it on her back, About the hem it seemed To wrinkle and to crack. "'Lie still, she cried, 'O mantle! And shame me not for naught; I'll freely own whate'er amiss Or blameful I have wrought. "'Once I kissed Sir Cradock Beneath the greenwood tree; Once I kissed Sir Cradock's mouth, Before he married me.
We know from Cradock's "Memoirs" how that gentleman, having induced Lord Harborough to lend him a superb volume of manuscripts, containing the poems of James the First, proceeded to re-lend this priceless treasure to Johnson.
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