I am a "newbie-squared" - new to both the VoW and to Group Reads!

In the beginning of Chapter 2, the Vicar states that he has been,

"...exhorting the married men to temperance, and the bachelors to matrimony; so that in a few years it was a common saying, that there were three strange wants at Wakefield, a parson wanting pride, young men wanting wives, and ale-houses wanting customers."

Which way does he mean it?

1.) Literally, that the village, unlike other villages, is "strangely" lacking the usual prideful parson (instead he is NOT prideful), wild-oats-sowing young men (instead they WANT to be married), and boozing parishioners; OR

2.) Facetiously, that these wants/desires are "strange" (as in UNKNOWN) to this village. So the parson is, indeed, prideful; the young men are boffing the local dairy maids, and the parishoners like their pubs?

In the literal view, he would be rather bragging on himself and his abilities as a vicar. In the second scenario, he would be skewering himself as an ineffectual, moral leader! Quite opposite ideas, and I'm conused!