Ballade Against The Jesuits Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDCD ABABBCCDC A ABBCCDCD E CCDCD| Rome does right well to censure all the vain | A |
| Talk of Jansenius and of them who preach | B |
| That earthly joys are damnable 'Tis plain | A |
| We need not charge at Heaven as at a breach | B |
| No amble on We'll gain it one and all | C |
| The narrow path's a dream fantastical | C |
| And Arnauld's quite superfluously driven | D |
| Mirth from the world We'll scale the heavenly wall | C |
| Escobar makes a primrose path to heaven | D |
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| He does not hold a man may well be slain | A |
| Who vexes with unseasonable speech | B |
| You MAY do murder for five ducats gain | A |
| NOT for a pin a ribbon or a peach | B |
| He ventures most consistently to teach | B |
| That there are certain cases that befall | C |
| When perjury need no good man appal | C |
| And life of love he says may keep a leaven | D |
| Sure hearing this a grateful world will bawl | C |
| 'Escobar makes a primrose path to heaven ' | - |
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| 'For God's sake read me somewhat in the strain | A |
| Of his most cheering volumes I beseech ' | - |
| Why should I name them all a mighty train | A |
| So many none may know the name of each | B |
| Make these your compass to the heavenly beach | B |
| These only in your library instal | C |
| Burn Pascal and his fellows great and small | C |
| Dolts that in vain with Escobar have striven | D |
| I tell you and the common voice doth call | C |
| Escobar makes a primrose path to heaven | D |
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| ENVOY | E |
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| SATAN that pride did hurry to thy fall | C |
| Thou porter of the grim infernal hall | C |
| Thou keeper of the courts of souls unshriven | D |
| To shun thy shafts to 'scape thy hellish thrall | C |
| Escobar makes a primrose path to heaven | D |
Andrew Lang
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