Macaulay's Young Levite

I met, the other day with a rather curious confirmation of a passage in Macaulay's *History of England*, which has been more assailed perhaps than any other. In his character of the clergy, Macaulay says, they frequently married domestics and retainers of great houses—a statement which has grievously excited the wrath of Mr. Babington and other champions. In a little book, once very popular, first published in 1628, with the title *Microcosmographie, or a Piece of the World discovered*, and which is known to have been written by John Earle, after the Restoration Bishop of Worcester and then of…