Satire On The Dutch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHDIFFJK LLHHMMDNFFOOMMPPQRMM SSPPAs needy gallants in the scrivener's hands | A |
Court the rich knaves that gripe 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 them that do the feat | G |
What injuries soe'er upon us fall | H |
Yet still the same religion answers all | H |
Religion wheedled us to civil war | D |
Drew English blood and Dutchmen's now would spare | I |
Be gulled 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 we 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 |
Think on their rapine falsehood cruelty | M |
And that what once they were they still would be | M |
To one well born the affront is worse and more | D |
When he's abused and baffled by a boor | N |
With an ill grace the Dutch their mischiefs do | F |
They've both ill nature and ill manners too | F |
Well may they boast themselves an ancient nation | O |
For they were bred ere manners were in fashion | O |
And their new commonwealth hath set them free | M |
Only from honour and civility | M |
Venetians do not more uncouthly ride | P |
Than did their lubber state mankind bestride | P |
Their sway became them with as ill a mein | Q |
As their own paunches swell above their chin | R |
Yet is their empire no true growth but humour | M |
And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour | M |
As Cato fruits of Afric did display | S |
Let us before our eyes their Indies lay | S |
All loyal English will like him conclude | P |
Let C sar live and Carthage be subdued | P |
John Dryden
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