Cases - Willis V. The Bishop Of Oxford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGH IJHHKKLLMMNNKKHHOOPP| Probate Division | A |
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| Aid me Muses my endeavour is to sing a woful song | B |
| How a very learned bishop in the Arches Court went wrong | B |
| Aid me for duplex querela is an uninviting theme | C |
| And the practice of the Arches raises no poetic dream | C |
| 'Tis the Reverend Child Willis child in name but not in age | D |
| Comes he to the Court of Arches burning with a noble rage | D |
| Filing his duplex querela claiming for himself thereby | E |
| Vicarage of Drayton Parslow or to know the reason why | E |
| Reason why the bishop answers that is not so far to seek | F |
| Little Latin have you Willis innocent are you of Greek | F |
| You were specially examined by my good Archdeacon Pott | G |
| He reported to me promptly 'Greek and Latin all forgot | G |
| Non idoneus is Willis minus et sufficiens | H |
| He may have a sanum corpus but he lacks a sana mens ' | - |
| Nay says Willis such an answer is but trifling with the court | I |
| I have preached a Latin sermon and the classics are my forte | J |
| You must name the books I failed in you must give me every chance | H |
| Of a fresh examination at the hands of Lord Penzance | H |
| Lord Penzance supported Willis Bishop you must file said he | K |
| Some more tangible objection some less vague and general plea | K |
| As it stands I cannot gather what it is you ploughed him in | L |
| Whether Hellenistic aorists or the Latin word for sin | L |
| But alas the world has never known as yet what Willis did | M |
| In the breast of the Archdeacon still it lies a secret hid | M |
| Was his Latin prose defective Did his style of writing show | N |
| More resemblance to Tertullian than to Tullius Cicero | N |
| Were his dates a little shaky Could it could it be that he | K |
| Confidently made Augustine flourish at a date B C | K |
| None will know save Pott Archdeacon for alas the patroness | H |
| Showed no mercy to Child Willis in the day of his distress | H |
| She revoked the presentation leaving Willis in the lurch | O |
| One of undisputed learning preached in Drayton Parslow church | O |
| Doubly barren was his triumph it was not a twelve month ere | P |
| Death set up his Court of Arches Willis did not triumph there | P |
James Williams
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