Poems on Several Occasions In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell |
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[Ye Commons and Peers]
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Ye Commons and Peers,Pray lend me your Ears,
I sing how a Serjeant was bit.
Let Men of the Law
An Inference draw,
And learn from a Ballad some Wit.
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To Westminster-Hall,Where Wranglers caball,
And Godliness seldom is Gain;
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With Eggs of a Pheasant,
In Manner most simple and plain.
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A Sergeant at Law,Renown'd for his Maw,
And exquisite Gusto in Feeding,
Soon eyeing the Eggs,
The Rate of 'em begs,
No Trick of a Countryman dreading.
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Without mincing Words,The Price he affords,
And Home with the Cargo hies Then.
Half dress'd up outright,
He eat with Delight,
And half he set under a Hen.
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But mark, in Conclusion,The Serjeant's Confusion,
When, 'stead of the delicate Fowls,
Out broke from the Shell
(As true as I tell)
A Brood of most ominous Owls.
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