Satire On The Dutch.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHIIEJGGKL MMIINNEOGGPPNNQQRSNN TTQQ| Written In The Year | A |
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| As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands | B |
| Court the rich knaves that gripe their mortgaged lands | B |
| The first fat buck of all the season's sent | C |
| And keeper takes no fee in compliment | C |
| The dotage of some Englishmen is such | D |
| To fawn on those who ruin them the Dutch | D |
| They shall have all rather than make a war | E |
| With those who of the same religion are | F |
| The Straits the Guinea trade the herrings too | G |
| Nay to keep friendship they shall pickle you | G |
| Some are resolved not to find out the cheat | H |
| But cuckold like love them that do the feat | H |
| What injuries soe'er upon us fall | I |
| Yet still the same religion answers all | I |
| Religion wheedled us to civil war | E |
| Drew English blood and Dutchmen's now would spare | J |
| Be gull'd no longer for you'll find it true | G |
| They have no more religion faith than you | G |
| Interest's the god they worship in their state | K |
| And we I take it have not much of that | L |
| Well monarchies may own religion's name | M |
| But states are atheists in their very frame | M |
| They share a sin and such proportions fall | I |
| That like a stink 'tis nothing to them all | I |
| Think on their rapine falsehood cruelty | N |
| And that what once they were they still would be | N |
| To one well born the affront is worse and more | E |
| When he's abused and baffled by a boor | O |
| With an ill grace the Dutch their mischiefs do | G |
| They've both ill nature and ill manners too | G |
| Well may they boast themselves an ancient nation | P |
| For they were bred ere manners were in fashion | P |
| And their new commonwealth has set them free | N |
| Only from honour and civility | N |
| Venetians do not more uncouthly ride | Q |
| Than did their lubber state mankind bestride | Q |
| Their sway became them with as ill a mien | R |
| As their own paunches swell above their chin | S |
| Yet is their empire no true growth but humour | N |
| And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour | N |
| As Cato fruits of Afric did display | T |
| Let us before our eyes their Indies lay | T |
| All loyal English will like him conclude | Q |
| Let C sar live and Carthage be subdued | Q |
John Dryden
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