Learnèdly

Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: / Some said he had been poison’d by Potemkin; / Others talk’d learnèdly of certain tumours, / Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin;

Great Mountjoy! were that name sincerely scann’d, / Mysterious hieroglyphics would explain; / Each letter’s allegory grace the hand / By whom the sense should learnèdly be drawn, / To stop the dull conceits of wits profane; / Diving into the depth of hidden art, / To give but due to each deserving part.

When, however, it is quite undeniable that the vast body of the clergy of the Establishment, with very few isolated exceptions,—such exceptions must always obtrude themselves while the world is a fallen world,—are energetically pursuing their sacred calling as the pastors of all the parishes; when it is matter, and increasingly, of daily notice, that they are diligently seeking the highest welfare of the flocks committed to their care; that they are doing this studiously, learnèdly, prayerfully, devotedly, “in labours, in watchings, in much patience; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness; by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned; by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report:”[…]

Rather wolde God our love than all our witte, / Faith than Philosophie, / The inarticulate pray’r that liftes with it / The soule eternallie, / Than Schoolmen’s lytell thought learnèdly writte.

While he went on, and learnèdly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his chosen Text, / I cast my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the Sounding-board.

Say, wilt thou follow me to my high house, / Whose silence hears the nibbling of a mouse, / And, with one finger at thy temple, sit / Learnèdly when the shaded lamp is lit, / Exiled and happy in the fireside nook, / Calm idol with thy elbows on the Book / And one hand on its clasp?

A German Privatdozent would discover in it sixteen allegories, all different, and many mutually exclusive, preface his exegesis with an elaborate and learnèdly documented essay on the parallel between der reine Thor and the Muscovite Innocent.

Was it not carried learnèdly?

Much / He spoke, and learnèdly, for life; but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten.

Much / [line 28] He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten.[…]28 learnedly three syllables (learnèdly)