The author of the Tale of a Tub, which he had had by him since 1696 or 1698, must have felt conscious of powers capable of far more effective exercise than reading-desk or pulpit at Laracor could supply; and his resolution to exchange divinity for politics must appear fully justified by the result.
A q3 ov, from ava(3aivav, to walk up, the reading-desk of early Basilican churches, also called iri pyos.
