The teaching function of the bishop is further elaborated, as he is to be "a leader of the blind, a light to those in darkness, a reprover of the unwise, a teacher of the young, a lamp to the world." The prayer ends by asking God to grant that the bishop stand "unashamed" before God's house, as he has "perfected the souls entrusted to him" by properly preaching the gospel.
"Some things, however, ought to be vehemently reproved, that, when a fault is not recognized by him who has committed it, he may be made sensible of its gravity from the mouth of the reprover; and that, when anyone smooths over to himself the evil that he has perpetrated, he may be led by the asperity of his censurer to entertain grave fears of its effects against himself.
Leah Marcus offers a compelling portrait of Jonson's relations to three courts, focusing on his obtrusive self-portraits in his early plays, where Jonson often cast himself as the reprover of the court's follies.