A Panegyric To Sir Lewis Pemberton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Till I shall come again let this sufficeA
I send my salt my sacrificeA
To thee thy lady younglings and as farB
As to thy Genius and thy LarB
To the worn threshold porch hall parlour kitchenC
The fat fed smoking temple which inD
The wholesome savour of thy mighty chinesA
Invites to supper him who dinesA
Where laden spits warp'd with large ribs of beefE
Not represent but give reliefE
To the lank stranger and the sour swainF
Where both may feed and come againG
For no black bearded Vigil from thy doorH
Beats with a button'd staff the poorI
But from thy warm love hatching gates each mayJ
Take friendly morsels and there stayJ
To sun his thin clad members if he likesA
For thou no porter keep'st who strikesA
No comer to thy roof his guest rite wantsA
Or staying there is scourged with tauntsA
Of some rough groom who yirk'd with corns says 'SirI
'You've dipp'd too long i' th' vinegarI
'And with our broth and bread and bits Sir friendK
'You've fared well pray make an endK
'Two days you've larded here a third ye knowL
'Makes guests and fish smell strong pray goL
'You to some other chimney and there takeM
'Essay of other giblets makeM
'Merry at another's hearth you're hereI
'Welcome as thunder to our beerI
'Manners knows distance and a man unrudeK
'Would soon recoil and not intrudeK
'His stomach to a second meal ' No noL
Thy house well fed and taught can showL
No such crabb'd vizard Thou hast learnt thy trainF
With heart and hand to entertainF
And by the arms full with a breast unhidK
As the old race of mankind didK
When either's heart and either's hand did striveN
To be the nearer relativeO
Thou dost redeem those times and what was lostK
Of ancient honesty may boastK
It keeps a growth in thee and so will runC
A course in thy fame's pledge thy sonC
Thus like a Roman Tribune thou thy gateK
Early sets ope to feast and lateK
Keeping no currish waiter to affrightK
With blasting eye the appetiteK
Which fain would waste upon thy cates but thatK
The trencher creature marketh whatK
Best and more suppling piece he cuts and byP
Some private pinch tells dangers nighP
A hand too desp'rate or a knife that bitesA
Skin deep into the pork or lightsA
Upon some part of kid as if mistookQ
When checked by the butler's lookQ
No no thy bread thy wine thy jocund beerI
Is not reserved for Trebius hereI
But all who at thy table seated areI
Find equal freedom equal fareI
And thou like to that hospitable godK
Jove joy'st when guests make their abodeK
To eat thy bullocks thighs thy veals thy fatK
Wethers and never grudged atK
The pheasant partridge gotwit reeve ruff railR
The cock the curlew and the quailR
These and thy choicest viands do extendK
Their tastes unto the lower endK
Of thy glad table not a dish more knownS
To thee than unto any oneC
But as thy meat so thy immortal wineT
Makes the smirk face of each to shineT
And spring fresh rose buds while the salt the witK
Flows from the wine and graces itK
While Reverence waiting at the bashful boardK
Honours my lady and my lordK
No scurril jest no open scene is laidK
Here for to make the face afraidK
But temp'rate mirth dealt forth and so discreetK
Ly that it makes the meat more sweetK
And adds perfumes unto the wine which thouU
Dost rather pour forth than allowU
By cruse and measure thus devoting wineT
As the Canary isles were thineT
But with that wisdom and that method asA
No one that's there his guilty glassA
Drinks of distemper or has cause to cryP
Repentance to his libertyK
No thou know'st orders ethics and hast readK
All oeconomics know'st to leadK
A house dance neatly and canst truly showL
How far a figure ought to goL
Forward or backward side ward and what paceA
Can give and what retract a graceA
What gesture courtship comeliness agreesA
With those thy primitive decreesA
To give subsistence to thy house and proofV
What Genii support thy roofV
Goodness and greatness not the oaken pilesA
For these and marbles have their whilesA
To last but not their ever virtue's handK
It is which builds 'gainst fate to standK
Such is thy house whose firm foundations trustK
Is more in thee than in her dustK
Or depth these last may yield and yearly shrinkW
When what is strongly built no chinkW
Or yawning rupture can the same devourI
But fix'd it stands by her own powerI
And well laid bottom on the iron and rockX
Which tries and counter stands the shockX
And ram of time and by vexation growsA
The stronger Virtue dies when foesA
Are wanting to her exercise but greatK
And large she spreads by dust and sweatK
Safe stand thy walls and thee and so both willY
Since neither's height was raised by th'illY
Of others since no stud no stone no pieceA
Was rear'd up by the poor man's fleeceA
No widow's tenement was rack'd to gildK
Or fret thy cieling or to buildK
A sweating closet to anoint the silkZ
Soft skin or bath e in asses' milkZ
No orphan's pittance left him served to setK
The pillars up of lasting jetK
For which their cries might beat against thine earsA
Or in the damp jet read their tearsA
No plank from hallow'd altar does appealA2
To yond' Star chamber or does sealA2
A curse to thee or thine but all things evenD
Make for thy peace and pace to heavenC
Go on directly so as just men mayJ
A thousand times more swear than sayJ
This is that princely Pemberton who canB2
Teach men to keep a God in manB2
And when wise poets shall search out to seeK
Good men they find them all in theeK

Robert Herrick



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