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Title: Sketches in Verse
respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry

Author: James Parkerson

Release Date: September 15, 2010 [eBook #33732]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES IN VERSE***

Transcribed from the early 1800's Walker edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

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SKETCHES
_IN VERSE_;
Respectfully Addressed
TO THE
_NORFOLK YEOMENRY_,

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BY J. PARKERSON, JUN.

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VIZ.

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On Foreign Grain. The Corn Mart. On Mr. L. the Unhappy Convict. The
Pine Apple. On the late Sir Samuel Rommilly. The Wiverton Boy, &c.

[Picture: Decorative divider]

Walker, Printer, near the Duke's Palace, Norwich

_THE NORWICH_
CORN MART. {1}

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BY J. PARKERSON, JUNR.

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At one o'clock the busy seen begin,
Quick to the hall they all are posting in;
The cautious merchant takes his stand,
The farmer shows the product of his land:
If wheat the merchant says it's damp or cold,
If Dawling Market, that's the case I'm told.
If it is barley he'll your mind unhinge,
And say good Sir it has a gloomy dinge;
Reduce three shillings of the currant price,
And with the farmer he'll be very nice;
If oats you offer he'll bid very low,
Say they are light the moment you them show;
If beans then say this sample's very soft,
And in his purchase he w