An Excellent New Song; Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAADDEF G HHIIJKLFMMNNOKIIPPQQ RSIIAATTUUAAIIVVSSWW XXII| An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire | A |
| Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire | A |
| Out of zeal for his country and want of a place | B |
| Is come up vi et armis to break the queen's peace | C |
| He has vamp'd an old speech and the court to their sorrow | A |
| Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow | A |
| When once he begins he never will flinch | D |
| But repeats the same note a whole day like a Finch | D |
| I have heard all the speech repeated by Hoppy ' | E |
| And mistakes to prevent I've obtained a copy | F |
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| THE SPEECH | G |
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| Whereas notwithstanding I am in great pain | H |
| To hear we are making a peace without Spain | H |
| But most noble senators 'tis a great shame | I |
| There should be a peace while I'm Not in game | I |
| The duke show'd me all his fine house and the duchess | J |
| From her closet brought out a full purse in her clutches | K |
| I talk'd of a peace and they both gave a start | L |
| His grace swore by G d and her grace let a f t | F |
| My long old fashion'd pocket was presently cramm'd | M |
| And sooner than vote for a peace I'll be damn'd | M |
| But some will cry turn coat and rip up old stories | N |
| How I always pretended to be for the Tories | N |
| I answer the Tories were in my good graces | O |
| Till all my relations were put into places | K |
| But still I'm in principle ever the same | I |
| And will quit my best friends while I'm Not in game | I |
| When I and some others subscribed our names | P |
| To a plot for expelling my master King James | P |
| I withdrew my subscription by help of a blot | Q |
| And so might discover or gain by the plot | Q |
| I had my advantage and stood at defiance | R |
| For Daniel was got from the den of the lions | S |
| I came in without danger and was I to blame | I |
| For rather than hang I would be Not in game | I |
| I swore to the queen that the Prince of Hanover | A |
| During her sacred life would never come over | A |
| I made use of a trope that an heir to invite | T |
| Was like keeping her monument always in sight | T |
| But when I thought proper I alter'd my note | U |
| And in her own hearing I boldly did vote | U |
| That her Majesty stood in great need of a tutor | A |
| And must have an old or a young coadjutor | A |
| For why I would fain have put all in a flame | I |
| Because for some reasons I was Not in game | I |
| Now my new benefactors have brought me about | V |
| And I'll vote against peace with Spain or without | V |
| Though the court gives my nephews and brothers and cousins | S |
| And all my whole family places by dozens | S |
| Yet since I know where a full purse may be found | W |
| And hardly pay eighteen pence tax in the pound | W |
| Since the Tories have thus disappointed my hopes | X |
| And will neither regard my figures nor tropes | X |
| I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name | I |
| And be a true Whig while I'm Not in game | I |
Jonathan Swift
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