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Loading... Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetryby Edmund Goldsmid
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"[...] Some hungry Priests he did once fell, With mighty Strokes sent them to Hell, Sent presently away, Sirs; Would you know why? The Reason's plain They had no English nor French coin To make a longer stay, Sirs. The Pope to Purgatory sends Who neither Money have nor Friends, In this he's not alone, Sirs; For our Judge to Mercy's no inclin'd, 'Less Gold change Conscience and his Mind, You are infallibly gone, Sirs. His Father once exempted was Out of all Juries [6]; why? because He was a Man of Blood, Sirs; And why the Butcherly Son (forsooth) Shou'd now be Jury and Judge both Cannot be understood, Sirs. The good Old Man with Knife and Knocks Made harmless Sheep and stubborn Ox Stoop to him in his Fury;[...]". No library descriptions found. |
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