Verses Occasioned By Whitshed's [1] Motto On His Coach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK DDLLAA| Libertas et natale solum | A |
| Fine words I wonder where you stole 'em | A |
| Could nothing but thy chief reproach | B |
| Serve for a motto on thy coach | B |
| But let me now the words translate | C |
| Natale solum my estate | C |
| My dear estate how well I love it | D |
| My tenants if you doubt will prove it | D |
| They swear I am so kind and good | E |
| I hug them till I squeeze their blood | F |
| Libertas bears a large import | G |
| First how to swagger in a court | G |
| And secondly to show my fury | H |
| Against an uncomplying jury | H |
| And thirdly 'tis a new invention | I |
| To favour Wood and keep my pension | I |
| And fourthly 'tis to play an odd trick | J |
| Get the great seal and turn out Broderick | J |
| And fifthly you know whom I mean | K |
| To humble that vexatious Dean | K |
| And sixthly for my soul to barter it | D |
| For fifty times its worth to Carteret | D |
| Now since your motto thus you construe | L |
| I must confess you've spoken once true | L |
| Libertas et natale solum | A |
| You had good reason when you stole 'em | A |
Jonathan Swift
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