Parody On The Recorder's Speech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C DDEEFF G CHHIIEEJJKKCCDLCCCCM MNNEEEEEEOO| TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ORMOND TH JULY | A |
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| This city can omit no opportunity of expressing their hearty affection for her majesty's person and government and their regard for your grace who has the honour of representing her in this kingdom | B |
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| We retain my lord a grateful remembrance of the mild and just Administration of the government of this kingdom by your noble ancestors and when we consider the share your grace had in the happy Revolution in and the many good laws you have procured us since particularly that for preventing the farther growth of Popery we are assured that that liberty and property that happy constitution in church and state to which we were restored by King William of glorious memory will be inviolably preserved under your grace's administration And we are persuaded that we cannot more effectually recommend ourselves to your grace's favour and protection than by assuring you that we will to the utmost of our power contribute to the honour and safety of her majesty's government the maintenance of the succession in the illustrious house of Hanover and that we shall at all times oppose the secret and open attempts of the Pretender and all his abettors | C |
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| THE RECORDER'S SPEECH EXPLAINED BY THE TORIES | C |
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| An ancient metropolis famous of late | D |
| For opposing the Church and for nosing the State | D |
| For protecting sedition and rejecting order | E |
| Made the following speech by their mouth the Recorder | E |
| First to tell you the name of this place of renown | F |
| Some still call it Dublin but most Forster's town | F |
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| THE SPEECH | G |
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| May it please your Grace | C |
| We cannot omit this occasion to tell | H |
| That we love the Queen's person and government well | H |
| Then next to your Grace we this compliment make | I |
| That our worships regard you but 'tis for her sake | I |
| Though our mouth be a Whig and our head a Dissenter | E |
| Yet salute you we must 'cause you represent her | E |
| Nor can we forget sir that some of your line | J |
| Did with mildness and peace in this government shine | J |
| But of all your exploits we'll allow but one fact | K |
| That your Grace has procured us a Popery Act | K |
| By this you may see that the least of your actions | C |
| Does conduce still the most to our satisfactions | C |
| And lastly because in the year eighty eight | D |
| You did early appear in defence of our right | L |
| We give no other proof of your zeal to your Prince | C |
| So we freely forget all your services since | C |
| It's then only we hope that whilst you rule o'er us | C |
| You'll tread in the steps of King William the glorious | C |
| Whom we're always adoring tho' hand over head | M |
| For we owe him allegiance although he be dead | M |
| Which shows that good zeal may be founded in spleen | N |
| Since a dead Prince we worship to lessen the Queen | N |
| And as for her Majesty we will defend her | E |
| Against our hobgoblin the Popish Pretender | E |
| Our valiant militia will stoutly stand by her | E |
| Against the sly Jack and the sturdy High flier | E |
| She is safe when thus guarded if Providence bless her | E |
| And Hanover's sure to be next her successor | E |
| Thus ended the speech but what heart would not pity | O |
| His Grace almost choked with the breath of the City | O |
Jonathan Swift
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