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Abbot
from
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
by Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
(1810–1897)
Abbot ( The ), the complacent churchman in Aldrich's poem of The Jew's Gift, who hanged a Jew "just for no crime," and pondered and smiled and gave consent to the heretic's burial—
"Since he gave his beard to the birds." (1881.)
