To The Reverend ----. One Of The Sixteen Requisitionists Of Nottingham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEFE GHGH IJIK DBFB BLBM NBOB DPDP| What you too my in hashes so knowing | A |
| Of sauces and soups Aristarchus profest | B |
| Are you too my savory Brunswicker going | A |
| To make an old fool of yourself with the rest | B |
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| Far better to stick to your kitchen receipts | C |
| And if you want something to tease for variety | B |
| Go study how Ude in his Cookery treats | C |
| Live eels when he fits them for polisht society | B |
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| Just snuggling them in 'twixt the bars of the fire | D |
| He leaves them to wriggle and writhe on the coals | E |
| In a manner that Horner himself would admire | F |
| And wish 'stead of eels they were Catholic souls | E |
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| Ude tells us the fish little suffering feels | G |
| While Papists of late have more sensitive grown | H |
| So take my advice try your hand at live eels | G |
| And for once let the other poor devils alone | H |
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| I have even a still better receipt for your cook | I |
| How to make a goose die of confirmed hepatitis | J |
| And if you'll for once fellow feelings o'erlook | I |
| A well tortured goose a most capital sight is | K |
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| First catch him alive make a good steady fire | D |
| Set your victim before it both legs being tied | B |
| As if left to himself he might wish to retire | F |
| And place a large bowl of rich cream by his side | B |
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| There roasting by inches dry fevered and faint | B |
| Having drunk all the cream you so civilly laid off | L |
| He dies of as charming a liver complaint | B |
| As ever sleek person could wish a pie made of | M |
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| Besides only think my dear one of Sixteen | N |
| What an emblem this bird for the epicure's use meant | B |
| Presents of the mode in which Ireland has been | O |
| Made a tid bit for yours and your brethren's amusement | B |
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| Tied down to the stake while her limbs as they quiver | D |
| A slow fire of tyranny wastes by degrees | P |
| No wonder disease should have swelled up her liver | D |
| No wonder you Gourmands should love her disease | P |
Thomas Moore
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