The Challenge: A Court Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
To one fair lady out of Court	B
And two fair ladies in	C
Who think the Turk and Pope a sport	B
And wit and love no sin	C
Come these soft lines with nothing stiff in	C
To Bellenden Lepell and Griffin	C
With a fa la la	D
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II	A
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What passes in the dark third row	E
And what behind the scene	F
Couches and crippled chairs I know	E
And garrets hung with green	F
I know the swing of sinful hack	G
Where many damsels cry alack	G
With a fa la la	D
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III	A
Then why to Courts should I repair	H
Where's such ado with Townsend	I
To hear each mortal stamp and swear	H
And every speech with 'Zounds' end	J
To hear them rail at honest Sunderland	I
And rashly blame the realm of Blunderland	I
With a fa la la	D
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IV	K
Alas like Schutz I cannot pun	L
Like Grafton court the Germans	M
Tell Pickenbourg how slim she's grown	N
Like Meadows run to sermons	M
To court ambitious men may roam	O
But I and Marlbro' stay at home	O
With a fa la la	D
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V	K
In truth by what I can discern	P
Of courtiers 'twixt you three	K
Some wit you have and more may learn	P
From Court than Gay or Me	K
Perhaps in time you'll leave high diet	I
To sup with us on milk and quiet	I
With a fa la la	D
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VI	K
At Leicester Fields a house full nigh	K
With door all painted green	F
A Milliner I mean	F
There may you meet us three to three	K
For Gay can well make two of Me	K
With a fa la la	D
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VII	K
But should you catch the prudish itch	Q
And each become a coward	I
Bring sometimes with you lady Rich	Q
And sometimes mistress Howard	I
For virgins to keep chaste must go	G
Abroad with such as are not so	G
With a fa la la	D
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VIII	K
And thus fair maids my ballad ends	R
God send the king safe landing	G
And make all honest ladies friends	R
To armies that are standing	G
Preserve the limits of those nations	M
And take off ladies' limitations	M
With a fa la la	D

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