Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.

Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping, Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!

Thus prebendal parishes were formed, with the canon prebendary as rector, employing his junior clerics as vicars either to serve his place in the collegiate church or to serve the parish if he preferred to reside in the college. […] Administrators tend to multiply and procedures to become more complex, and there were certainly large numbers of well-educated men, Oxford graduates, within Lacy's employ, who were paid, at least partly, by convenient prebendal incomes from colleges.

It recalls econonophysics and sociophysics as disciplines within which the effective parameterization of trends is possible.