Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night opens with a conversation between Viola and a fool playing a tabour, a drum. Viola asks, “Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by thy tabour?”

The fool replies, “No, sir, I live by the church.”

“Art thou a churchman?” Viola asks.

“No such matter, sir,” the fool replies. “I do live by the church; for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.”(Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. Act 3, Scene 1)

There is a difference between living near the church and living by the church, a point lost on the fool.