MR. GOTOBED IS CALLED WRONG WITH A DOUBLEThou shalt pronounce this hideous thing With cross, and candle, and bell-knelling.
JOHN MYRC: Instructions for Parish Priests (15th century).
Spring and Easter came late together that year to Fenchurch St. Paul. In its own limited, austere and almost grudging fashion the Fen acknowledged the return of the sun. The floods withdrew from the pastures; the wheat lifted its pale green spears more sturdily from the black soil; the stiff thorns bordering dyke and grass verge budded to a softer outline; on the willows, the yellow catkins danced like little bell-rope sallies, and the silvery p*****s plumped themselves for the children to carry to church on Palm Sunday; wherever the grim banks were hedge-sheltered, the shivering dog-violets huddled from the
