Newsffrom St. James's. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEE FFGGHHHHHH IIJJKKHHLLHHHH MMII| A courtier summon'd hence of late | A |
| Was call'd to Minos' Judgment Seat | B |
| - | |
| The Cretan Sage began the Charge | C |
| Recounted all his Crimes at large | C |
| His Insincerity and Pride | D |
| His Hundred evil Arts beside | D |
| Arts thinly veil'd with Virtue's Guise | E |
| The modern Statesmens Scheme to rise | E |
| - | |
| He cringing owns his Guilt with Shame | F |
| Yet from himself would shift the Blame | F |
| Insists that since the World began | G |
| Kings seldom rais'd the virtuous Man | G |
| Some Instances must be allow'd | H |
| Tho' almost lost in such a Croud | H |
| That Courts were other Things of late | H |
| Than when he rul'd the Cretan State | H |
| That those who breathe in them will find | H |
| The tainted Air corrupts the Mind | H |
| - | |
| Courtier the Judge reply'd beware | I |
| Theander has resided there | I |
| The third of an accomplish'd Race | J |
| Who fill'd successively one Place | J |
| Yet see the Stream of Virtue run | K |
| Untainted down from Sire to Son | K |
| Humane their Hearts enlarg'd refin'd | H |
| With ev'ry Gift to bless their Kind | H |
| In Friendship's noblest Zeal sincere | L |
| In Honour amiably severe | L |
| Steady to Faith and Truth and Right | H |
| With open Honesty polite | H |
| With no Disguise in Sptech or Spirit | H |
| But Modesty the Mask of Merit | H |
| - | |
| True Minos yet you must agree | M |
| These Instances conclude for me | M |
| They uncorrupt have brearh'd that Air | I |
| But how have they succeeded there | I |
Mary Barber
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