Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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CLXXI.
[O'erfoaming with rage]
O'erfoaming with rageThe foul-mouth'd judge Page
Thus question'd a thief in the dock:
“Didst never hear read
In the church, lump of lead!
Loose chip from the devil's own block!
‘Thou shalt not steal?’” “Yea,”
The white chap did say,
“‘Thou shalt not:’ but thou was the word.
Had he piped out ‘Jem Hewitt!
Be sure you don't do it,’
I'd ha' thought of it twice ere I did it, my lord.”
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