 | Poems on several occasions |  |
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VIII.—ON A CONFERENCE IN FRANCE.
Poor Horace, as the French assure ye,
Waited on cardinal De Fleury;
Horace a strong protector needing,
Renown'd for wit as well as breeding.
“Dear sir,” quoth he, “our house remember:
Patch up some peace before December;
Or else to Tyburn we are damn'd all
At Christmas next, by way of gambol.”
Waited on cardinal De Fleury;
Horace a strong protector needing,
Renown'd for wit as well as breeding.
“Dear sir,” quoth he, “our house remember:
Patch up some peace before December;
Or else to Tyburn we are damn'd all
At Christmas next, by way of gambol.”
Dear cardinal, this supplication
Reject, and hear the British nation:
The brothers and their cause forsaking,
Promote our Christmas merry-making.
Their guilt would soon procure them scourges,
Unbutton but your cloak like Burgess;
They're gone, in friendship if you falter:
They've had their swing without a halter
Now long enough; O show the minute
That lets them take their swing too in it!
Reject, and hear the British nation:
The brothers and their cause forsaking,
Promote our Christmas merry-making.
Their guilt would soon procure them scourges,
Unbutton but your cloak like Burgess;
They're gone, in friendship if you falter:
They've had their swing without a halter
Now long enough; O show the minute
That lets them take their swing too in it!
| Poems on several occasions | |