The honest ghost or a voice from the vault [by Richard Brathwait] |
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A Button-Bung, or, A Westminster Snap.
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A Button-Bung, or, A Westminster Snap.
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Westminster my Cassock chanc't to find
A Button-Cutter, who was much inclin'd
To medle with our furniture behind;
From whence my native Genius divin'd,
“Though Westminster above no Spiders show,
“It has a brood of Nimmers hatcht below,
Who can Prapan poor Clients where they go,
“Leave them not worth a Button nor a Stro.
A Button-Cutter, who was much inclin'd
To medle with our furniture behind;
From whence my native Genius divin'd,
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“It has a brood of Nimmers hatcht below,
Who can Prapan poor Clients where they go,
“Leave them not worth a Button nor a Stro.
Beware deare Countrey-men of Mollerstang,
Least rurall faction make you sing like Sang;
Contest not where your Foe & Cause prove strang,
Lest you confesse that all things go a-wrang:
For though your Countesse pay, I can assure ye,
When th' Game is plaid, your purse must pay the Jurie.
Desist then, Friends; no more Commissions sit
Unlesse it be at Fleece to quicken wit.
Least rurall faction make you sing like Sang;
Contest not where your Foe & Cause prove strang,
Lest you confesse that all things go a-wrang:
For though your Countesse pay, I can assure ye,
When th' Game is plaid, your purse must pay the Jurie.
Desist then, Friends; no more Commissions sit
Unlesse it be at Fleece to quicken wit.
This short advice comes from a friendly hand
As any you can have in Westmerland.
As any you can have in Westmerland.
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