On John Dawson, Butler Of C.c. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHEEFFIIGH DD| Dawson the Butler's dead Although I think | A |
| Poets were ne'er infusde with single drinke | A |
| Ile spend a farthing muse some watry verse | B |
| Will serve the turne to cast upon his hearse | B |
| If any cannot weepe amongst us here | C |
| Take off his pott and so squeeze out a tear | D |
| Weepe O his cheeses weepe till yee bee good | E |
| Yee that are dry or in the sun have stood | E |
| In mossy coats und rusty liveries mourne | F |
| Untill like him to ashes you shall turne | F |
| Weep O ye barrells lett your drippings fall | G |
| In trickling streams make waste more prodigal | H |
| Than when our drinke is badde that John may flote | E |
| To Styx in beere and lift upp Charon's boate | E |
| With wholesome waves And as our conduits run | F |
| With clarett at a Coronation | F |
| So lett our channells flow with single tiffe | I |
| For John I hope is crownde take off your whiffe | I |
| Yee men of Rosemary Now drinke off all | G |
| Remembring 'tis a Butler's funeral | H |
| Had he bin master of good double beere | D |
| My life for his John Dawson had beene here | D |
William Strode
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