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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!