text:  Oh to see the row of performers the consequential choir transcending in importance (in their own eyes) the clerk the curate the rector and even the squire from the great hall majestic and stern though he be with his awful wig and gold-headed cane! There are the fubsy boys--copied apparently from cherubim--who with glowing distended cheeks are simpering on the ceiling _doing_ the tenor with wide open mouths that would shame e'er a barn-door in the village; their red stumpy fingers sprawling over the music which they are (not) reading