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Title: George Herbert and his times
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hyde, A. G
Subjects: Herbert, George, 1593-1633
Publisher: London : Methuen & co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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astical buildings—both, as all pilgrims to the Herbert shrines know,tiny structures on the high-road between Salis-bury and Wilton—received his first care : theparsonage, also at his own great charge/ wasthen made ready for himself and his like-spiritedwife. And having done this good work hecaused these verses to be writ upon, or engravedin, the mantel of the chimney in his hall:— To My Successor. If thou chance for to findA new house to thy mind, And built without thy cost;Be good to the poor,As God gives thee store, And then my labours not lost. Having thus fixed him at Bemerton, Waltonproceeds to give an account of his behaviourboth to his parishioners and those many othersthat knew and conversed with him. As yet,however, he was only a deacon, and, therefore,longed for the next Ember Week, that he mightbe ordained priest, and made capable of admin-istering both the Sacraments. At which time theRev. Humphrey Henchman, now Lord Bishop ofLondon (who does not mention him but with
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w BEMERTON: THE PARSON IN HIS CURE 229 some veneration for his life and excellent learn-ing ?), tells me he laid his hand on Mr. Herbertshead, and, alas! within less than three years lenthis shoulder to carry his dear friend to his grave.Apparently it was at this time, and in order topreserve those holy rules which such a priest ashe intended to be ought to observe, that Her-bert composed what is probably, after The Temple,his most important work in English—the littlebook called The Country Parson; . . . a book sofull of plain, prudent, and useful rules, says Wal-ton, that that country parson that can sparetwelve pence and yet wants it is scarce excusable.His life thenceforward was a faithful applicationof the precepts he thus set down for the guidanceof himself and others. His first pulpit labours, asmight be expected in a neglected parish wherethe Churches had been allowed to fall into decay,were of the nature of instruction in the funda-mentals of worship and religious life. The

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