A Panegyric To Sir Lewis Pemberton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAEEFGHIJJAAAA IIKKLLMMIIKKLLFFKKNO KKCCKKKKKKPPAAQQIIII KKKKRRKKSCTTKKKKKKKK UUTTAAPKKKLLAAAAVVAA KKKKWWIIXXAAKKYYAAKK ZZKKAAA2A2DCJJB2B2KKTill I shall come again let this suffice | A |
I send my salt my sacrifice | A |
To thee thy lady younglings and as far | B |
As to thy Genius and thy Lar | B |
To the worn threshold porch hall parlour kitchen | C |
The fat fed smoking temple which in | D |
The wholesome savour of thy mighty chines | A |
Invites to supper him who dines | A |
Where laden spits warp'd with large ribs of beef | E |
Not represent but give relief | E |
To the lank stranger and the sour swain | F |
Where both may feed and come again | G |
For no black bearded Vigil from thy door | H |
Beats with a button'd staff the poor | I |
But from thy warm love hatching gates each may | J |
Take friendly morsels and there stay | J |
To sun his thin clad members if he likes | A |
For thou no porter keep'st who strikes | A |
No comer to thy roof his guest rite wants | A |
Or staying there is scourged with taunts | A |
Of some rough groom who yirk'd with corns says 'Sir | I |
'You've dipp'd too long i' th' vinegar | I |
'And with our broth and bread and bits Sir friend | K |
'You've fared well pray make an end | K |
'Two days you've larded here a third ye know | L |
'Makes guests and fish smell strong pray go | L |
'You to some other chimney and there take | M |
'Essay of other giblets make | M |
'Merry at another's hearth you're here | I |
'Welcome as thunder to our beer | I |
'Manners knows distance and a man unrude | K |
'Would soon recoil and not intrude | K |
'His stomach to a second meal ' No no | L |
Thy house well fed and taught can show | L |
No such crabb'd vizard Thou hast learnt thy train | F |
With heart and hand to entertain | F |
And by the arms full with a breast unhid | K |
As the old race of mankind did | K |
When either's heart and either's hand did strive | N |
To be the nearer relative | O |
Thou dost redeem those times and what was lost | K |
Of ancient honesty may boast | K |
It keeps a growth in thee and so will run | C |
A course in thy fame's pledge thy son | C |
Thus like a Roman Tribune thou thy gate | K |
Early sets ope to feast and late | K |
Keeping no currish waiter to affright | K |
With blasting eye the appetite | K |
Which fain would waste upon thy cates but that | K |
The trencher creature marketh what | K |
Best and more suppling piece he cuts and by | P |
Some private pinch tells dangers nigh | P |
A hand too desp'rate or a knife that bites | A |
Skin deep into the pork or lights | A |
Upon some part of kid as if mistook | Q |
When checked by the butler's look | Q |
No no thy bread thy wine thy jocund beer | I |
Is not reserved for Trebius here | I |
But all who at thy table seated are | I |
Find equal freedom equal fare | I |
And thou like to that hospitable god | K |
Jove joy'st when guests make their abode | K |
To eat thy bullocks thighs thy veals thy fat | K |
Wethers and never grudged at | K |
The pheasant partridge gotwit reeve ruff rail | R |
The cock the curlew and the quail | R |
These and thy choicest viands do extend | K |
Their tastes unto the lower end | K |
Of thy glad table not a dish more known | S |
To thee than unto any one | C |
But as thy meat so thy immortal wine | T |
Makes the smirk face of each to shine | T |
And spring fresh rose buds while the salt the wit | K |
Flows from the wine and graces it | K |
While Reverence waiting at the bashful board | K |
Honours my lady and my lord | K |
No scurril jest no open scene is laid | K |
Here for to make the face afraid | K |
But temp'rate mirth dealt forth and so discreet | K |
Ly that it makes the meat more sweet | K |
And adds perfumes unto the wine which thou | U |
Dost rather pour forth than allow | U |
By cruse and measure thus devoting wine | T |
As the Canary isles were thine | T |
But with that wisdom and that method as | A |
No one that's there his guilty glass | A |
Drinks of distemper or has cause to cry | P |
Repentance to his liberty | K |
No thou know'st orders ethics and hast read | K |
All oeconomics know'st to lead | K |
A house dance neatly and canst truly show | L |
How far a figure ought to go | L |
Forward or backward side ward and what pace | A |
Can give and what retract a grace | A |
What gesture courtship comeliness agrees | A |
With those thy primitive decrees | A |
To give subsistence to thy house and proof | V |
What Genii support thy roof | V |
Goodness and greatness not the oaken piles | A |
For these and marbles have their whiles | A |
To last but not their ever virtue's hand | K |
It is which builds 'gainst fate to stand | K |
Such is thy house whose firm foundations trust | K |
Is more in thee than in her dust | K |
Or depth these last may yield and yearly shrink | W |
When what is strongly built no chink | W |
Or yawning rupture can the same devour | I |
But fix'd it stands by her own power | I |
And well laid bottom on the iron and rock | X |
Which tries and counter stands the shock | X |
And ram of time and by vexation grows | A |
The stronger Virtue dies when foes | A |
Are wanting to her exercise but great | K |
And large she spreads by dust and sweat | K |
Safe stand thy walls and thee and so both will | Y |
Since neither's height was raised by th'ill | Y |
Of others since no stud no stone no piece | A |
Was rear'd up by the poor man's fleece | A |
No widow's tenement was rack'd to gild | K |
Or fret thy cieling or to build | K |
A sweating closet to anoint the silk | Z |
Soft skin or bath e in asses' milk | Z |
No orphan's pittance left him served to set | K |
The pillars up of lasting jet | K |
For which their cries might beat against thine ears | A |
Or in the damp jet read their tears | A |
No plank from hallow'd altar does appeal | A2 |
To yond' Star chamber or does seal | A2 |
A curse to thee or thine but all things even | D |
Make for thy peace and pace to heaven | C |
Go on directly so as just men may | J |
A thousand times more swear than say | J |
This is that princely Pemberton who can | B2 |
Teach men to keep a God in man | B2 |
And when wise poets shall search out to see | K |
Good men they find them all in thee | K |
Robert Herrick
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