On Dr. Rundle, Bishop Of Derry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFEEDDGGHHII EEJJEEKKLLMMEENNOOJJ EEEEPPIIEEJJLLQKRRII EEEEJJA | |
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Make Rundle bishop fie for shame | B |
An Arian to usurp the name | B |
A bishop in the isle of saints | C |
How will his brethren make complaints | C |
Dare any of the mitred host | D |
Confer on him the Holy Ghost | D |
In mother church to breed a variance | E |
By coupling orthodox with Arians | E |
Yet were he Heathen Turk or Jew | F |
What is there in it strange or new | F |
For let us hear the weak pretence | E |
His brethren find to take offence | E |
Of whom there are but four at most | D |
Who know there is a Holy Ghost | D |
The rest who boast they have conferr'd it | G |
Like Paul's Ephesians never heard it | G |
And when they gave it well 'tis known | H |
They gave what never was their own | H |
Rundle a bishop well he may | I |
He's still a Christian more than they | I |
We know the subject of their quarrels | E |
The man has learning sense and morals | E |
There is a reason still more weighty | J |
'Tis granted he believes a Deity | J |
Has every circumstance to please us | E |
Though fools may doubt his faith in Jesus | E |
But why should he with that be loaded | K |
Now twenty years from court exploded | K |
And is not this objection odd | L |
From rogues who ne'er believed a God | L |
For liberty a champion stout | M |
Though not so Gospel ward devout | M |
While others hither sent to save us | E |
Come but to plunder and enslave us | E |
Nor ever own'd a power divine | N |
But Mammon and the German line | N |
Say how did Rundle undermine 'em | O |
Who shew'd a better jus divinum | O |
From ancient canons would not vary | J |
But thrice refused episcopari | J |
Our bishop's predecessor Magus | E |
Would offer all the sands of Tagus | E |
Or sell his children house and lands | E |
For that one gift to lay on hands | E |
But all his gold could not avail | P |
To have the spirit set to sale | P |
Said surly Peter Magus prithee | I |
Be gone thy money perish with thee | I |
Were Peter now alive perhaps | E |
He might have found a score of chaps | E |
Could he but make his gift appear | J |
In rents three thousand pounds a year | J |
Some fancy this promotion odd | L |
As not the handiwork of God | L |
Though e'en the bishops disappointed | Q |
Must own it made by God's anointed | K |
And well we know the cong regal | R |
Is more secure as well as legal | R |
Because our lawyers all agree | I |
That bishoprics are held in fee | I |
Dear Baldwin chaste and witty Crosse | E |
How sorely I lament your loss | E |
That such a pair of wealthy ninnies | E |
Should slip your time of dropping guineas | E |
For had you made the king your debtor | J |
Your title had been so much better | J |
Jonathan Swift
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