rivy council should declare,
No more should come the present year;
We give to foreign farmers aid,
And starve our own I am afraid.
Free the farmer of all taxes,
The present ones their minds perplexes;
Double or quit the landlords say,
Ease the farmer, _make them_ pay.
Their farms produce them such high price,
In paying taxes can't be nice;
Let P---s ease the farmers cares,
Theirs is all wheat they get no tares:
The tithes they have advanced so high,
That make the farmer almost cry,
Compel them to throw back a part,
At least a tenth to cheer the heart;
Out of the sum that's paid for tithe,
That would the farmers mind revive
And tenth of rent they ought to pay,
To drive the farmers grief away:
Yeomen are forced to go to plough,
Then make a P---n milk a cow;
Keep sheep that task they can't decline,
Or help to feed the fowls and swine.
I think that is a cleaver plan,
'Twould often save a lad or man;
And as they share a tenth produce,
They are bound to make themselves of use;
They ought to teach the youth the creed,
And little girls to spell and read:
They like a fox chase or a play,
To kill the vacant time away;
Or cards or balls or such like things,
Fit only for the eye of Kings.
On Sundays see how quick they walk
Into a church to preach or talk;
So quick they'll range the sermon o'er,
As you their folly must deplore.
A pointer and a spaniel lay,
Behind the R--t--r. when he pray;
And now and then the dogs will bark,
Which much disturb the sleepy clerk;
He takes and pull them by the ears,
Which much disturb the man of prayers.
Soon as he thinks his dinner's fit,
He hurries home to ease the spit:
Thank God he has no more to pray,
To clowns until next sabbath day;
When that arrives oh how he sigh,
To know his trouble is so nigh!
Reluctant he to church repair,
Yet not omit to view the fair:
So as to catch the darting eye,
The P---n give when he descry;
She is at leisure to impart,
A smile to cheer his drooping heart:
Soon as he leaves the sacred place,
He anxiously the female trace,
To pass with her a merry joke,
Or else her passion to invoke,
In such a way as suits his mind,
If she is to sly fun inclined.
Many a poor man feeds a boy,
Where P---s leisure time employ;
A poor man's wife I've seen dress fine,
A