Note 110 — THE NAVE
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"He found him mounted in his pew, With books and money placed for shew." The Lawyer's Pew, Butler's Hudibras. "A bedstead of the antique mode, Compact of timber many a load, Such as our ancestors did use, Was metamorphosed into pews; Which still their ancient nature keep By lodging folks disposed to sleep." Swift's Baucis and Philemon.