Note 284 — Chapter XV · THE IRISH CHURCH UNDER HENRY VIII.
Reading edition
Brady’s Episcopal Succession, vol. i. p. 325; Ware. Roy’s satire against Wolsey, printed in the 9th vol. of the Harleian Miscellany, has the following:
Wat. And who did for the show pay? Jeff. Truly many a rich abbaye To be eased of his visitation. Wat. Doth he in his own person visit? No, another for him doth it, That can skill of the occupation. A fellow neither wise nor sad, But he was never yet full mad, Though he be frantic and more. Dr. Alen he is named, One that to lie is not ashamed If he spy advantage therefore. Wat. Are such with him in any price? Jeff. Yea, for they do all his advice, Whether it be wrong or right.