Note 59e — A SUFFOLK PARSON.
Reading edition
“All but the Parson’s dog.” The poor vicars never got back a bit of the impropriate tithes; the seats of learning got comparatively little. The “dogs about town” got most. Then, in the last touching words, “the Parson’s dog he went wi’ none,” yet still singing, “Folderol diddledol, hidum humpf.”