man, though he was ugly and lowly in person, and in understanding simple, and of breeding but a poor
parsons son, had yet in him a spirit so loving and cheerful, so lifted from base and selfish purposes
to the worship of duty, and to a generosity rather knightly than sacerdotal, that all through his life he
seemed to think only that it was more blessed to give than to receive. And all that wealth which he gained
in the wars he dispersed among his sisters and the poor of his parish, living unmarried till his death like
a true lover and constant mourner (as shall be said in place), and leaving hardly wherewith to bring his
body to the grave. At whom if we often laughed once, we should now rather envy him, desiring to be
here what he was, that we may be hereafter where he is. Amen.