Prologue To Amboyna.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHDIFFJK LLHHMMNNOOPPOO| As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands | A |
| Court the rich knave that gripes their mortgaged lands | A |
| The first fat buck of all the season's sent | B |
| And keeper takes no fee in compliment | B |
| The dotage of some Englishmen is such | C |
| To fawn on those who ruin them the Dutch | C |
| They shall have all rather than make a war | D |
| With those who of the same religion are | E |
| The Straits the Guinea trade the herrings too | F |
| Nay to keep friendship they shall pickle you | F |
| Some are resolved not to find out the cheat | G |
| But cuckold like love him who does the feat | G |
| What injuries soe'er upon us fall | H |
| Yet still the same religion answers all | H |
| Religion wheedled you to civil war | D |
| Drew English blood and Dutchmen's now would spare | I |
| Be gull'd no longer for you'll find it true | F |
| They have no more religion faith than you | F |
| Interest's the god they worship in their state | J |
| And you I take it have not much of that | K |
| Well monarchies may own religion's name | L |
| But states are atheists in their very frame | L |
| They share a sin and such proportions fall | H |
| That like a stink 'tis nothing to them all | H |
| How they love England you shall see this day | M |
| No map shows Holland truer than our play | M |
| Their pictures and inscriptions well we know | N |
| We may be bold one medal sure to show | N |
| View then their falsehoods rapine cruelty | O |
| And think what once they were they still would he | O |
| But hope not either language plot or art | P |
| 'Twas writ in haste but with an English heart | P |
| And least hope wit in Dutchmen that would be | O |
| As much improper as would honesty | O |
John Dryden
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