A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
![A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/william-hazlitt/a-felon-could-plead-benefit-of-clergy-and-be-saved-by-reading-aloud-what-was-aptly-enough-termed-the-neck.jpg)
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.