A Bill For The Better Promotion Of Oppression On The Sabbath Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHIJJJKKJJ LLJJJMNOOPPQQRICCQQO OOSSTTJJUUJJIIVVMMWX QQQQYY| Forasmuch as the Canter's and Fanatic's Lord | A |
| Sayeth peace and joy are by me abhorred | A |
| And would fill each Sunday with gloom and pain | B |
| For all too poor his regard to obtain | B |
| And forasmuch as the laws heretofore | C |
| Have not sufficiently squeezed the poor | D |
| Be it therefore enacted by Commons King | E |
| And Lords a crime for any thing | E |
| To be done on the Sabbath by any rank | F |
| Excepting the rich No beer may be drank | F |
| Food eaten rest taken away from home | G |
| And each House shall a Sunday prison become | H |
| And spies and jailers must carefully see | I |
| Under severest penaly | J |
| None stirs but to conventicle | J |
| Thrice a day at toll of bell | J |
| And each sickly cit who dare engage | K |
| His place by steamer fly or stage | K |
| With owner thereof shall by this said bill | J |
| Be punished with fine imprisonment or treadmill | J |
| But nothing herein is designed to discourage | L |
| Priest noble or squire from the use of his carriage | L |
| No ship shall move however it blow | J |
| The Devil a bit shall said ship go | J |
| Whether the winds will let it or no | J |
| And as winds and weather we cannot imprison | M |
| Owners Captain and sailors we therefore shall seize on | N |
| And whereas oxen lambs and sheep | O |
| About the roads and lanes will creep | O |
| And cocks and hens and ducks and geese | P |
| Will not on Sunday hold their peace | P |
| Be it enacted that foresaid beasts | Q |
| If not belonging to gentry or priests | Q |
| Be caught and whipped and pounded on Sunday | R |
| And sold to pay expences on Monday | I |
| The drunkard who paid five shillings before | C |
| Shall now pay twenty shillings more | C |
| And mine host if on Sabbath he dare unloose | Q |
| A bolt shall be fined and his licence lose | Q |
| All oranges cakes lollypop | O |
| Shall be sized every open shop | O |
| Shall be fined a pound an hour till it stop | O |
| Till nine the milkman may ply his trade | S |
| For pious breakfasts must be made | S |
| At he risk of his soul And the bakers at last | T |
| When the poor man's dinner is clearly past | T |
| Must set to work the godly scorning | J |
| Stale rolls and bread on a Monday morning | J |
| That Justices may have less to do | U |
| 'Tis enacted they may convict on view | U |
| And shall if they think the couse more drastic | J |
| Transfer to Courts Ecclesiastic | J |
| All informers shall pass scot free | I |
| However false their averments may be | I |
| And witnesses who have no mind | V |
| To convict shall be imprisoned and fined | V |
| And whereas from this act's operation | M |
| Are exempted the following ranks in this nation | M |
| The rich man's servants they cannot be spared | W |
| In spite of Scripture from working hard | X |
| Milkmen in the morning at evening the bakers | Q |
| With constables doctors thieves parsons tollmakers | Q |
| And parties for music gambling or dinners | Q |
| Are hereby exempt when the rich are the sinners | Q |
| For no party whatever has aught to fear | Y |
| From said act who has more than a year | Y |
Thomas Love Peacock
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