Funny Browning. Compare the colloquy "The Gospel Bearer" by Erasmus, in
which the dimmer character--the one who doesn't really get the
Gospel--says he has hit somebody (a heretic?) over the head with his copy
of the Bible, raising three lumps in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost. Anne P.
> When he finishes refection,
> Knife and fork he never lays
> Cross-wise, to my recollection,
> As do I, in Jesu's praise.
> I the Trinity illustrate,
> Drinking watered orange-pulp--
> In three sips the Arian frustrate;
> While he drains his at one gulp.
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