An Excellent New Song[1]; On A Seditious Pamphlet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEEECC FGFHHHICC DDDDJJJCC KLHLEEECC| A | |
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| To the tune of Packington's Pound | B |
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| Brocades and damasks and tabbies and gauzes | C |
| Are by Robert Ballantine lately brought over | D |
| With forty things more now hear what the law says | C |
| Whoe'er will not wear them is not the king's lover | D |
| Though a printer and Dean | E |
| Seditiously mean | E |
| Our true Irish hearts from Old England to wean | E |
| We'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters | C |
| In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters | C |
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| In England the dead in woollen are clad | F |
| The Dean and his printer then let us cry fie on | G |
| To be clothed like a carcass would make a Teague mad | F |
| Since a living dog better is than a dead lion | H |
| Our wives they grow sullen | H |
| At wearing of woollen | H |
| And all we poor shopkeepers must our horns pull in | I |
| Then we'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters | C |
| In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters | C |
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| Whoever our trading with England would hinder | D |
| To inflame both the nations do plainly conspire | D |
| Because Irish linen will soon turn to tinder | D |
| And wool it is greasy and quickly takes fire | D |
| Therefore I assure ye | J |
| Our noble grand jury | J |
| When they saw the Dean's book they were in a great fury | J |
| They would buy English silks for their wives and their daughters | C |
| In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters | C |
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| This wicked rogue Waters who always is sinning | K |
| And before coram nobis so oft has been call'd | L |
| Henceforward shall print neither pamphlets nor linen | H |
| And if swearing can do't shall be swingingly maul'd | L |
| And as for the Dean | E |
| You know whom I mean | E |
| If the printer will peach him he'll scarce come off clean | E |
| Then we'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters | C |
| In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters | C |
Jonathan Swift
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