Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Parson

says Blackstone, is “persona ecclesiae,” one that hath full rights of the parochial church. (See Clerical Titles.)

Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute [wont to set],
Yparroked [impaled] in puwes. The person hit knoweth.

Robert Langland: Piers Plowmes Vision.

“God give you good morrow, master, person” (i.e. Sir Nathaniel, a parson). —Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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