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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +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: UTF-8 + + +***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. + + _PRICE_ 2_s._ + + * * * * * + + + + + + SKETCHES + _IN VERSE_; + Respectfully Addressed + TO THE + _NORFOLK YEOMENRY_, + + + * * * * * + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUN. + + * * * * * + + VIZ. + + * * * * * + +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} + + + * * * * * + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUNR. + + * * * * * + + 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 will keep aloft; + Show him a sample of good Brank or Rye, + He’ll bid you low and look extremely shy: + This is the case if Mark Lane’s very dull, + And all his granaries are very full. + Yet if the market keep upon the rise, + Tho’ bad your sample that he’ll not despise, + Purchase as much as he can gain that day, + Or from his net proceeds afford to pay; + ’Tant always markets make a merchant dull, + It is the banker on him has a pull; + That often gives despair or cause a gloom, + He fears an order to the sweating room. + I’ve known that happen on a market day, + Then from the mart he’s forc’d to keep away, + Sometimes G. R. locks up the malt house door, + From an extent and makes him sad and poor; + A country house and a new fashioned gig, + He keeps to make him look at markets big; + Soon as demands upon him loudly call, + He say to day I shant attend the hall: + The clerk announce his master is unwell, + Yet purchase all you are inclined to sell; + And when for payment you may on him call, + Leaves Norwich mart and can’t be found at all; + And when a stoppage happens farmers quake, + Then cry who’d thought that such a man would break; + To take off merchants I am quite unwilling, + At first set off, some are not worth a shilling; + A loss at sea they cannot long withstand, + Can’t call their own an acre of good land; + Yet I protest, pace all our city round, + I don’t know one that is not just and sound; + They deal with honour and are men of trade, + Keep up their payments and disdain parade; + At times a farmer often do complain, + If now and then they do refuse his grain; + Sometimes he sells a sample of hard beans, + On market days and after sends his teams; + The merchant do the article refuse, + For in the sacks much softer grain he views; + The reason’s plain he can’t the bulk admire, + The sample was improved from a large fire; + Soon as he comes to where he do set up, + Of London Porter oft he takes a sup; + The sample in his pocket, there he’ll stay + By a good fire and chat two hours away; + Of altering samples he pays no regard, + But such a conduct makes the sample hard; + Then he complains if a reduction’s made, + That he’s in fault you cannot him persuade; + Friction will much improve most sorts of grain, + You on this subject no longer i’ll detain. + + + + +On Mr. L--- + + +_Taking leave of his Wife and Children_, _who was Sentenced to +__Transportation for Fourteen Years_. + + * * * * * + + FROM LIFE. + + * * * * * + + Hannah farewell I’m bound to go, + To taste the bitter draught of woe; + And as I view that starting tear, + It drives and sinks me to despair; + And now I take a last farewell, + The grief I feel no one can tell; + Two lovely children claims my care, + I’m forc’d to clothe them with despair; + As sorrow only on them press, + They are doomed to wear no other dress; + We little thought some former years, + In such a place to shed our tears; + There’s only one our tears can dry, + It is the God like Deity. + And he can all our griefs expel, + Altho’ I bid this last farewell; + These fetters he can quick undo, + And send me back to live with you; + May hope with all its balmy power, + Sooth Hannah in each trying hour, + Friendship I fear will from you flee, + Ere I am riding on the sea; + For the rich will close the door, + ’Gainst those misfortune maketh poor; + And even in a lucky day, + The’ll from the brightest object stray; + And those I’ve injured will descry, + Your falling state and destiny; + The G---’s are good and often kind, + To those where troubles press the mind. + I hope when I am gone from view, + Kind friendship they will show to you; + Great confidence they placed in me, + Till lured by worldly gaiety; + Suspicion on me hurl’d its dart, + Forc’d on a sudden to depart, + From Children Home and Hannah too, + Disgraced I fled from public view; + But justice has a piercing eye, + Her runners quick did me espy; + Most fairly tried tho’ guilty found, + Calmly I heard the dreadful sound; + That ushered to my anxious heart, + That I from Hannah must depart; + For fourteen years ere I shall see + My troubles o’er and liberty; + To God my fate and life I trust, + What he ordains I know is just; + Whene’er a man from honour stray, + By vice he’s easy led away; + To every wicked artful plan, + That soon entraps the falling man; + And what increase foreboding tears, + My little ones are come of years; + When they demand a father’s aid + Methinks I hear it justly said, + I ought that thought before possess, + Ere I my wife and them distress; + Extravagance have been the cause; + That made me act against the laws; + And you that dress in rich attire, + And only flippant things admire; + Extravagance will oft too late, + Cause you to mourn a culprits fate. + The name of felon oft I hear, + That very name increase despair; + And as I now my fetters view, + I dread what shortly will ensue; + Methinks I hear the goaler say, + This day from her you go away; + From Britons happy peaceful shore, + My wife and home to see no more; + Till fourteen years are roll’d away, + I shall not see a happy day; + Oh should that happy time return, + Then will my heart with rapture burn; + At such a time my wife to view, + Would every care of life subdue; + My children to my arms I’d press, + And never more cause their distress; + Hope gently wispers to my heart, + That ere I long from you depart, + Those I have injured will obtain + A mandate to unloose the chain; + And as they view your wretched state, + They’ll mourn an absent father’s fate. + Seldom they ever sue in vain, + To our loved prince but mostly gain, + A respite from the pangs of grief, + Or gain an order for relief; + I’ve borne the unfeeling keen reproach, + Some said I longed to keep a coach; + That I in tendom oft did ride, + With all an upstarts sullen pride; + ’Twas pride that led me to disgrace, + I took what I could not replace; + Had I a million, that I’d give, + With you in future for to live; + Oh! Hannah are you come again, + To sooth my woe and ease my pain; + Your cheeks I’ve furrowed with sad tears, + Come gentle hope dismiss those fears; + That do her tender frame distress, + Oh! God make Hannah’s sufferings less. + My last of efforts unless prove, + My doom I find is fixed above; + No intercession can obtain, + A respite from this galling chain. + I’m doomed to waste some years away, + Far, far, from you upon the bay. + Oh keen distress with every ill, + Obtrude on me the bitter pill; + While life remains hope will divest + A gloomy thought tho’ he’s distress’d. + It feeds the wound yet known no cure, + And often makes us more indure; + Sometimes it lulls us into sleep, + And for a time our senses steep; + And like a pleasing dream obtain, + A short abatement from our pain; + Soon as it vanish from our view, + Our earthly troubles rise anew; + Till death unwelcome strikes his dart, + And ease the captives aching heart: + But oh! that awful coming day, + That every mortals crimes display; + What creatures shall we then appear, + The Lord’s decree we all must hear; + May every soul that’s tried above, + From Christ obtain our maker’s love. + Oh! God I hear the dreadful call, + Prepare, prepare, ye felons all; + Oh! let me take a last imbrace, + I’m summoned, all appear in haste. + + + + +_THE_ +CONVICT’S +Farewell, +&c. &c. &c. + + + BY J PARKERSON, JUNR. + + Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell! + The finest language can but faintly tell, + What I now feel in writing the adieu, + What you must suffer when I’m far from you. + There was a time when happiness my lot, + I liv’d serenely in my little cot; + No wicked thoughts did then disturb my rest, + My children round me, by a father prest; + No father now methinks I hear them say, + He’s gone from us, he’s hurried far away. + Nightly I’ve view’d them in my flurri’d dreams, + Seen their wet eyes and heard their dreadful screams; + Methought my wife came to my lonely cell, + To say adieu, to bid a long farewell; + Soon I awoke and to increase my pains, + I felt my legs encompass’d round with chains; + Then then, I cried, oh drunkenness thou cause, + Of this distress, and make me break those laws + That wise men made for every man to keep, + By them deluded, plung’d in crimes so deep. + First step to ruin was a love of dice, + With cards the great promoter of our vice; + I wish those men who do with such things play, + Would ever cast them from their hands away; + I wish all Magistrates would search around, + And punish Publicans where they are found: + They caus’d me first my Master to neglect, + And after lost me honest men’s respect; + They also led me from a virtuous wife, + And mostly caused my sad disgrace and strife. + View Public Houses every wealthy Squire, + And force by ten the spendthrift to retire; + By such a plan the labouring poor would rise, + Soon as the sun adorns the heavenly skies: + I’ve stated what have brought me to this end, + And what has lost me every earthly friend; + Except a wife—oh God protect and bless, + Her and our offspring now in great distress. + Young men be cautious how you spend your time, + A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime; + Sometimes an artful female tries her power, + To trap the giddy in a thoughtless hour; + When she has work’d the captive to her will, + She gladly sees you taking sorrow’s pill; + Cause you to leave a virtuous homely wife, + And lead a sad disgraceful wicked life; + Allur’d by art she’ll bring you to distress, + And like a Millwood to you falsely press: + Then be the first your actions to betray, + A fiend like such, caus’d me to go astray + From them I love, from those my heart hold dear, + And shall till death their memories revere; + When I am clos’d in transport on the sea, + Doubtless my love you’ll sometimes sigh for me. + Bring up my little ones in such a way, + As they will holy keep the sabbath-day; + Early in life do in their minds reveal, + The dreadful crimes to swear, to lie, or steal. + Hannah my eldest daughter, place her where, + She’s constant under virtue’s eye and care, + Let her not learn the weaving trade, you’ll find, + That such a course may injure much her mind; + Females are ready to acquire that art, + Soon as they wish fair virtue to depart; + Unwilling oft in service for to be. + Where they can’t dress and have their liberty; + But if with parents they can work at home, + Nightly they hope with idle folks to roam: + At my late sentence I can not complain, + Altho’ the law my body do detain; + Justice tho’ slow has overtaken me, + Abroad for life, I shall he kept from thee; + On a just God for ever I will trust, + I know his will is always right and just. + Tis now too late again to speak to you, + Which is the cause of writing this adieu. + No partner now to sooth my aching heart, + Reflection galls me, at myself I start, + With aching heart and in my lonely cell, + I bid my babes and you,—a long farewell. + Methink I see the transport full in view, + And I with horror meet the harden’d crew; + Full well I know I ne’er shall see you more, + Nor plant a footstep on my native shore; + On foreign land I’m doom’d my days to toil, + And with vile wretches cultivate the soil. + Stripes I must bare perhaps when quite unwell, + And hear the convicts’ melancholy yell; + A pang I fell when e’er I close the night, + And wish a virtuous wife was in my sight: + England adieu! may you in trade increase, + And free from inward tumults rest in peace. + Our Chaplain well I know, will soon impart, + His friendly aid to cheer the drooping heart; + I hope my children he will learn to read, + And teach them early to peruse the creed: + The bell is rung, the waggon is in view, + Wife and dear children now, adieu! adieu! + At thoughts of leaving this my native shore, + Unmans me quite and I can say no more; + I will thro’ life a better course pursue, + Tho’ far away shall leave my heart with you. + + + + +ADVICE, &c. + + + Vile man, abstain from every artful plan, + When found out disgrace the name of man; + Let those who steal repent and sin no more, + Ere Law decrees, its vengeance on them pour: + From trifling things, we greater ills pursue, + Till the Law’s fangs are brought within our view; + Stop, stop bad courses, ere it be too late, + And justice dooms you to a culprits fate. + Riots avoid tho’ mischief none you do, + Your being at them brings a stain on you; + Those who look on, will afterwards repent, + And share alike in point of punishment: + The Law expressly properly declare, + He adds to tumult that is present there; + Take my advice let reason bear her sway, + From scenes of discord, always keep away; + You’d think it hard a worthless savage crew, + Should gain by plunder all your goods from you: + The worst of men are foremost on a plan, + To gain by rapine every way they can; + Do you suppose that wasting others store, + Can ease the hardships of the labouring poor: + No such a course, our present ills increase, + And robs the Nation of its inward peace. + From late example all are taught to know, + Dreadful his fate that strikes confusion’s blow; + Then let us quiet at our cots remain, + And better times will cheer us once again. + All means of trying, comforts to restore, + To ease the hardships of the labouring poor; + Think what distress awaits dishonest ways, + Immur’d in prison many wretched days; + Not only days, perhaps they shed their tears, + In foreign lands for many dismal years; + Not only years, perhaps are doom’d for life, + Abroad to roam, from children, home and wife: + Should it your lot in prison for to be, + Implore with fervent prayer the Deity; + Who will in time if you sincerely pray, + Lessen your troubles each succeeding day: + It’s thro’ our Saviour’s aid that we should crave, + A gracious pardon ere we meet the grave; + His intercession with the king of Kings, + Alone can save you from eternal stings. + When at the court for trial you appear, + Speak nought but truth you better for it fare; + For should you dare to introduce a lie, + Justice’s sharp eye each falsehood will descry: + The guilty felon, of his crime is clear: + Dismay’d confus’d, he feels alas! too late, + Such impious conduct greatly aggravate; + Besides he answers at the awful day, + For causing others from the truth to stray. + Whatever happens in this vale of tears, + Our Maker knows, give him your fervent prayers: + Let your demeanor if in prison be, + Such as the jailor can contrition see; + For his report may mitigate your doom, + And sometimes save you from a prison’s gloom. + Religious books if you can read attend, + They are in solitude the pris’ner’s friend; + When at the Chapel, do not cast away, + By inattention what the Chaplain say: + It’s pure Religion cheers each good man’s heart, + And will in time its blessings soon impart; + Such as perhaps you never knew before, + And doubtless will your peace of mind restore. + The Bible read, when in your dismal cell, + Read it attentive ere you bid farewell; + To him who may companion with you be; + Your soul that night may be required of thee. + A scene I witnessed, and not long time since, + Would stop the errors of an hardened prince; + Three men were sentenc’d by the law to die, + To hear them mourn, to see the drooping eye; + Would cause sensations of a painful kind, + While anxious cares corode the tortur’d mind. + A pious Chaplain strove to bring in view, + The proferr’d pardon if repentants true. + He said that God was merciful and just, + To implore forgiveness on his word to trust; + There is a record where the scripture say, + Those that repent he will not cast away; + A sigh or tear can not that boon impart, + It must be fervent from the head and heart: + Thro’ Jesus’ aid vile sinners doth he save, + If true repentants ere they meet the grave. + Each wish’d they could recal the time that’s past, + And they would live as if each day the last: + Just before death they pray’d me to implore, + An erring mortal to transgress no more; + Hope their lov’d Chaplain might, for ever be + When call’d on high blessed to eternity; + They knew his worth his heart is of a kind, + That plants soft pity to a feeling mind: + Deeker, as Chaplain, few can e’er excel, + Belov’d by all who bids the jail farewell. + When first I saw those wretched men in jail, + Before their trial, did their fate bewail; + Soon as the sentence met each anxious ear, + Resign’d and true repentants did appear; + One and all cried out, oh that God how just! + To stop our sad career, on thee we’ll trust; + One cause alone have made this sore distress, + Neglecting lord’s day and our drunkenness. + + * * * * * + + + + +_Ode to the Memory of the late lamented_ +SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY + + + Well may Britons waft the sigh, + Since Romilly’s no more; + Till our existance from us fly, + We shall his loss deplore. + + Oh! death thy keen unwelcome dart, + Caus’d Briton’s tears to flow; + ’Twas you compell’d him to depart, + And gave the deadly blow. + + His virtues we shall long retain, + They are planted in each breast; + Till death they will with us remain, + By all he was carest. + + I oft have heard his accents sweet, + Flow graceful from his tongue. + Applause would all his efforts greet, + For music on them hung. + + His reasoning powers none could excel, + For truth appeared in view; + As _orator_ he spoke so well, + It oft compassion drew. + + The callous heart could not refrain + To shed soft Pity’s tear; + He spoke in such pathetic strain, + As caused the falling tear. + + He set the injured captive free, + Oppression wou’d subdue; + A zealous friend to liberty, + And Briton’s knew it true. + + Whene’er his duty would allow, + He’d seek domestic joy; + To stern afflictions forc’d to bow, + And that all peace destroy. + + His loss, we ever shall deplore, + And may his spirit rest + With virtuous souls long call’d before, + And numbered with the blest. + + Yet ere his spirit fled away, + God summoned her above, + Who passed with him each happy day, + And gave him love for love. + + Oh may his offspring never feel, + Those pangs he did endure; + No friendly aid the wound could heal, + Nor medicine health procure. + + May our redeemer pardon gain, + For him and for us all; + Soon as we cease from earthly pain, + Or God our spirits call. + + [Picture: Decorative divider] + + Walker, Printer, near the Duke’s Palace, Norwich. + + + + +AN ADDRESS +TO THE +NORFOLK YEOMAN +ON THE +_Importation of_ +FOREIGN GRAIN. + + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUN + + On Foreign grain a duty lay, + Good Ministers I pray I pray, + If you our humble suit decline, + How can we meet and take our wine; + Chat about prices at Mark Lane, + To drink a bottle an’t’ prophane; + Did Mr. Pitt one night decline, + To call to aid the generous wine. + C---s cannot at times keep sober, + If they are tempted by October; + Sometimes a R---t---r takes a glass + Of spirits with a pretty lass; + Another thing I can define, + A B---p may get drunk with wine; + If it is placed within his view, + He acts as other people do; + Like us sometimes is prone to sin, + When Satan is alive within; + Sometimes successful he may be, + With B---s Sir as well as we; + And oft it does my feelings shock, + To see how dizzy is their flock; + So hard will they horses ride, + As if it was their daily pride. + Themselves and order to disgrace, + By being at a Foxes chase; + To see a cock fight won’t decline, + A country P---n tho’ divine; + But oh! upon a sabbath day, + How grave they look how much they pray. + Perhaps for sinners in this life, + Or to chat with neighbours wife. + A P---n in a country place, + Not long ago incur’d disgrace, + A neighbour went a dame to see, + A merry one as well could be; + A cock’d hat laid upon a chair, + This Sir is true I do declare; + She call’d, she knock’d, no answer made, + Upstairs she went without perade; + The P---n quick the curtains drew, + To keep the stranger from his view; + The neighbour said I make thus free, + As you invited me to tea; + But as you have a stranger here, + I do intrude I greatly fear. + I oft have heard the people say, + She took the P---n’s hat away; + But ere she reached her happy home, + The P---n to her quick did roam, + Says he good woman that’s my hat! + You know not what you have been at; + Give it me and never say, + What you have witness’d and I’ll pay + You well to let the matter rest, + Within your own untroubled breast + No no, says she this hat I’ll give, + Your wife as I do hope to live; + And tell her where I found it laid, + My trouble will be well repaid; + So R---d Sir to you adieu, + Your conduct I’ll expose to view. + I’ll speak of foreign grain again, + Hope your attention to detain; + Let Ministers a duty lay, + And make the foreign farmer pay + A certain sum on all he send, + Of grain into this fertile land. + Corn Laws are needless I protest, + To be without them would be best; + When crops are thin then grain would sell, + No doubt in Mark Lane very well: + At such a year then foreign grain, + Would flock into our ports again; + Soon an ’twas found enough was sent, + To answer every good intent, + A privy 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, + And gain the means from a D—e; + If they have money for to spare, + They’ll will bestow it on the fair + The Cambridge ladies know it well, + I only do the truth now tell; + I’ve known a footman gain a place, + To save a C---e from disgrace; + He gains a calf as well as cow, + To manage matters they know how; + Poor Tom don’t mind if he can find, + The P---n have a generous mind; + They always should to business stick, + Correct their flock read to the sick; + Too oft they do that task delay, + They are the first to go astray. + They ne’er should be a M---g---e, + It makes the people oft them hate; + From them no milk of kindness flow, + It’s seldom mercy they will show. + Too oft they do to prison send, + A man his future life to mend; + He learns in such a place to be, + A hardened villian you may see. + Soon as his liberty he gain, + From acts of tumult wont abstain; + From every virtue he’s bereft, + By company he’s lately kept; + Small faults it’s better to look o’er, + And tell them for to sin no more: + A bridewell often inmates have, + Who do for others riches crave: + In the same cell a boy is placed, + That have incur’d some slight disgrace; + Often he’s placed with such a man + As teach him mischief all he can. + The boy goes out well versed in art, + That his late inmates did impart; + As soon as he his freedom gain, + Do that which causeth grief and pain; + Grown more familiar to a plan, + Of robbing others all he can. + And whilst in prison he was taught, + To tell a lie to screen a fault; + His brother prisoners did him teach, + To crib all trifles in his reach; + Too oft he’s led by poachers where + To fang a bird or catch a hare: + And by advice he choose a spot + Where rambling Keepers see him not. + Poachers I think are less to blame + Then those that often buy the game. + There is a God that dwells on high, + Who will all mortals faults descry; + Should he no mercy to them show, + And send the men of prayers below, + Where Satan dwells and where he reigns, + To plant on sinners chains and pains; + With man let mercy constant rest, + For ever in the mind and breast. + Mercy I fear they never knew, + Or if they did it from them flew; + For virtue only can be found, + Where hearts are good minds are sound; + Humanity few e’er possess’d, + They cannot keep it in their breast. + No, arrogance and pride there dwell, + The poor around all know it well; + Seldom will ope a gaudy door, + To give a penny to the poor: + Yet glad would do it any day, + To turn the applicant away; + Or else to prison send the man, + And gladly punish all they can. + All fain would be a Demi God, + To hold the sharp chastising rod; + Esteem’d by few, by none revered, + And by the poor man greatly feared; + No longer I’ll this theme pursue, + But bid the haughty Sirs, adieu. + A good divine shall be my theme, + The villiage did him much esteem; + A poor distress’d Italian youth, + Whose features bore the marks of truth; + Call’d at the parson’s door to say, + The night was dark he’d lost his way; + The good divine observed the lad + Was sorrowful and thinly clad, + “Step in” says he and shut the door, + “Sometimes I feed the needy poor. + Your outward guarb bespeaks distress, + This night I’ll make your troubles less.” + The youth with gratitude replied, + To earn my living is my pride; + Pictures I sell and glasses too, + Much cheaper then you’ll find a jew; + And soon most pleasing to his eye, + Was ushered a good mutton pie; + And further to afford relief, + Beside the pye a piece of beef; + And likewise quick his heart to cheer, + Between the two a pint of beer. + All night he staid the morning came, + The Parson asked the boy his name; + My name is luckless he replies, + Tears were streaming from his eyes; + Pray do you like this wandering life, + No says the lad it causeth strife. + A joiners business sir I crave, + From selling pictures could I save + Enough, I’d soon a master find, + And to him myself I’d bind. + The Parson soon a master found, + Cloathed the youth and gave ten pound. + He served his time so well ’tis said, + As soon his charity repaid. + He gained a living by his trade, + The Parson gave without parade. + And at the Reverend’s death ’twas found, + He left his boy five hundred pound, + He call’d the boy tho’ grown a man, + Excel this action if you can. + + [Picture: Decorative divider] + + Printed by R. Walker, Norwich. + + + + +A Description of the Pine-apple at Trowse. + + + Both beauty and art have exerted their skill, + You will find on a spot near the brow of a hill; + The hill is near Norwich and call’d Bracondale, + I stept into Vince’s myself to regale. + The landlord I found Sir adopted one plan, + To please all his customers all that he can; + Some Topsmen I found had come to the spot, + To look at their darlings, each good hardy Scot; + When business was o’er they did not decline, + To take a few bottles of Vince’s port wine; + The flavour was such they could not refrain, + To fill up a bumper again and again. + I found these good fellows are men of sense, + That to learning and knowledge may lay a pretence; + Most of these gentlemen always can find, + A stranger’s good converse to cherish the mind. + When they went away, in the garden, I stray’d, + And do not repent there a visit I paid, + There was pinks, there was roses, and cucumbers too, + And peas of the finest I ever did view: + The evergreens pleas’d me their odour was sweet, + And a thousand of other sweet shrubs did I meet, + But oh what sweet pleasures your mind to fulfil. + Is the view that you have on the top of the hill. + The river delighteth the mind and the eye + On which you see wherries constant pass by, + Besides there is barges that proudly do ride, + With packets to Yarmouth assisted by tide; + There’s low-lands and up-lands that gladden the sight, + And a thousand sweet objects the mind to delight + And such view of the city as must please the eye, + A thousand old buildings you there may descry; + Oh this is a garden I said to myself, + That was I a man that had plenty of wealth, + I would ramble to daily, myself to regale, + For Vince I well know have some fine flavour’d ale; + And those that have tasted his porter declare, + That two or three glasses the spirits will cheer; + Here’s Jamaca Rum that will gladden the heart + The flavour of which will much pleasure impart; + His Hollands you’d find would soon make you merry, + And your cheeks my good Sir look as red as a cherry; + But oh for his Brandy put that in a bowl, + With his very strong Rum & ’twould soon cheer the soul. + His best English Gin will banish all care, + If you take but enough I vow and declare; + He keeps Cows to afford you a little good stuff, + If you only will add to it Rum quite enough; + Besides with your Hautboys he will find you cream + Now do not suppose that this is a dream; + Step into Vince’s and you’ll find it true, + That what I have stated may be found by you; + For your steed or you poney there’s a stable I say, + That is kept clean and neat with the finest of hay. + And his friends from the north who do bullocks sell, + Know that he lodges their cattle quite well; + He has all the means to keep them clean & warm, + And shelter those creatures from rain & from storm + There’s plenty of acres to give them full scope, + And plenty of feed if their mouths they will ope; + Their bellies they may most rapidly fill, + To give them a plenty I know is his will; + I have oft heard him say that he great pleasure take, + In providing for stock for each owner’s sake, + And that he determines no pains he would spare, + To take care of cattle that’s under his care; + Indeed I believe that all his friends find, + To afford satisfaction he’s always inclin’d; + And all those that think proper at his house to stray, + Shall never have cause to complain when away: + He thanks all his friends for each favour that’s past, + And hopes that each visit will not be the last; + His efforts to please them he’ll strongly renew, + And each friend that call shall soon find it true; + Most fully determined such liquor to sell, + As all shall declare that they like it quite well; + I believe that in summer no spot is more fit, + To brace up the nerves to those that need it. + The air is so fine that it cherish the frame, + Besides there’s another great pleasure I’ll name, + But a very short mile and the journey is o’er, + Ere they can walk in at the Pine-apple door; + I mean for those friends who for pleasure do stray + That near is the distance as I have heard say, + I’m sure that no one will have cause to repine, + At the distance from Norwich when wheather is fine, + The garden produces such store sir in May, + As induce you to take some on going away; + Cucumbers and other things there you may buy, + So early I’m told as delighteth the eye, + To do it no pains nor expences he spare, + That Vince’s good friends may have something that’s rare; + Another thing early the Ladies to please, + He grows in the garden the sweetest of peas, + And if in the spring there are nice cooling showers, + The same time will send them the choisest of flowers, + The garden most people from Norwich invite, + As that is his pride and daily delight; + There are seats and good harbours your time to invite, + When smoaking your pipe to afford you delight, + The house tho’ not gaudy is always kept clean, + Or at least I do say as mostly is seen; + He keeps lively fires in winter I’m told, + To keep his good friends when there catching cold, + And oh his tobacco most people approve, + It handles you’ll find quite as soft as a dove; + His pipes are glaz’d high you will find at the end, + Such as you’d wish to bestow on a friend. + Indeed in the mansion no pains will he spare, + To gain him applause or your spirits to cheer; + He’s grateful to all both rich and poor, + That choose to step in at the Pine-apple door. + He wish all to spend no more than they please, + To joke, drink, and laugh, & be merry at ease, + Harmonious parties he likes for to see, + That delight in good friendship and sing a good glee, + A song now and then will enliven the heart, + And make us unwilling till late to depart. + + + + +THE WIVERTON BOY; +_Or_, _Sailor Returned_. + + + On Wiverton Green a boy was found, + Weeping his fate upon the ground; + Compassion soon the helpless drew, + To give him aid they instant flew; + The overseer quick took the youth, + Matured him in the paths of truth; + At proper age they sought to find, + What calling suited best his mind; + Upon the main he wished to try, + His fortune and his destiny. + Quick to a merchant ship was sent, + He braved the stormy eliment; + Intrepid courage gave him aid, + And due attention well he paid, + To every order that he heard, + And by the crew was much revered; + At riper years became a mate, + In the same ship he tried his fate; + His master died he took his place, + His tutor he did not disgrace, + He soon became a man of wealth, + Adorned with riches, strength, and health. + Tired of the sea he came on shore, + His Wiverton friends to see once more. + Each hailed the happy pleasing day, + They view’d the orphan nam’d Greenway. + The tear of sorrow from him flew, + When he the fatal spot did view; + Says he this village fostered me, + Till I embarked upon the sea. + Part of my earnings will I give, + That poorer souls may better live; + He bought the Briston tithes to do + A generous act outdone by few; + And soon as bought gave them away, + To those that named him young Greenway. + In trust to aid the needy poor, + Who will till death his name adore. + Owing to times it will be found, + These tithes have fetched three hundred pound; + And Wiverton poor have every year, + A sum that keeps them from despair; + And oft they cry we bless the day, + That brought to us our good Greenway. + + Knighted Sir Richard Greenway. + + FINIS. + +{1} The composition of this eText follows the ordering of the original +in Norwich Millennium Library, England. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +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*** +</pre> +<p>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.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>PRICE</i> 2<i>s.</i></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h1>SKETCHES<br /> +<i>IN VERSE</i>;<br /> +Respectfully Addressed<br /> +<span class="smcap">to the</span><br /> +<i>NORFOLK YEOMENRY</i>,</h1> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by j. +parkerson</span>, <span class="smcap">jun.</span></p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">VIZ.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>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.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative divider" +title= +"Decorative divider" +src="images/p0.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">Walker, Printer, +near the Duke’s Palace, Norwich</p> +<h2><!-- page 1--><a name="page1_1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +1</span><i>THE NORWICH</i><br /> +CORN MART. <a name="citation1"></a><a href="#footnote1" +class="citation">[1]</a></h2> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">By J. +Parkerson</span>, <span class="smcap">Junr.</span></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p class="poetry">At one o’clock the busy seen begin,<br /> +Quick to the hall they all are posting in;<br /> +The cautious merchant takes his stand,<br /> +The farmer shows the product of his land:<br /> +If wheat the merchant says it’s damp or cold,<br /> +If Dawling Market, that’s the case I’m told.<br /> +If it is barley he’ll your mind unhinge,<br /> +And say good Sir it has a gloomy dinge;<br /> +Reduce three shillings of the currant price,<br /> +And with the farmer he’ll be very nice;<br /> +If oats you offer he’ll bid very low,<br /> +Say they are light the moment you them show;<br /> +If beans then say this sample’s very soft,<br /> +And in his purchase he will keep aloft;<br /> +Show him a sample of good Brank or Rye,<br /> +He’ll bid you low and look extremely shy:<br /> +This is the case if Mark Lane’s very dull,<br /> +And all his granaries are very full.<br /> +<!-- page 2--><a name="page1_2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>Yet if the market keep upon the rise,<br /> +Tho’ bad your sample that he’ll not despise,<br /> +Purchase as much as he can gain that day,<br /> +Or from his net proceeds afford to pay;<br /> +’Tant always markets make a merchant dull,<br /> +It is the banker on him has a pull;<br /> +That often gives despair or cause a gloom,<br /> +He fears an order to the sweating room.<br /> +I’ve known that happen on a market day,<br /> +Then from the mart he’s forc’d to keep away,<br /> +Sometimes G. R. locks up the malt house door,<br /> +From an extent and makes him sad and poor;<br /> +A country house and a new fashioned gig,<br /> +He keeps to make him look at markets big;<br /> +Soon as demands upon him loudly call,<br /> +He say to day I shant attend the hall:<br /> +The clerk announce his master is unwell,<br /> +Yet purchase all you are inclined to sell;<br /> +And when for payment you may on him call,<br /> +Leaves Norwich mart and can’t be found at all;<br /> +And when a stoppage happens farmers quake,<br /> +Then cry who’d thought that such a man would break;<br /> +To take off merchants I am quite unwilling,<br /> +At first set off, some are not worth a shilling;<br /> +A loss at sea they cannot long withstand,<br /> +Can’t call their own an acre of good land;<br /> +<!-- page 3--><a name="page1_3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>Yet I protest, pace all our city round,<br /> +I don’t know one that is not just and sound;<br /> +They deal with honour and are men of trade,<br /> +Keep up their payments and disdain parade;<br /> +At times a farmer often do complain,<br /> +If now and then they do refuse his grain;<br /> +Sometimes he sells a sample of hard beans,<br /> +On market days and after sends his teams;<br /> +The merchant do the article refuse,<br /> +For in the sacks much softer grain he views;<br /> +The reason’s plain he can’t the bulk admire,<br /> +The sample was improved from a large fire;<br /> +Soon as he comes to where he do set up,<br /> +Of London Porter oft he takes a sup;<br /> +The sample in his pocket, there he’ll stay<br /> +By a good fire and chat two hours away;<br /> +Of altering samples he pays no regard,<br /> +But such a conduct makes the sample hard;<br /> +Then he complains if a reduction’s made,<br /> +That he’s in fault you cannot him persuade;<br /> +Friction will much improve most sorts of grain,<br /> +You on this subject no longer i’ll detain.</p> +<h2>On Mr. L---</h2> +<p><i>Taking leave of his Wife and Children</i>, <i>who was +Sentenced to </i><!-- page 4--><a name="page1_4"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Transportation for Fourteen +Years</i>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry"><span +class="smcap">from life</span>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p class="poetry">Hannah farewell I’m bound to go,<br /> +To taste the bitter draught of woe;<br /> +And as I view that starting tear,<br /> +It drives and sinks me to despair;<br /> +And now I take a last farewell,<br /> +The grief I feel no one can tell;<br /> +Two lovely children claims my care,<br /> +I’m forc’d to clothe them with despair;<br /> +As sorrow only on them press,<br /> +They are doomed to wear no other dress;<br /> +We little thought some former years,<br /> +In such a place to shed our tears;<br /> +There’s only one our tears can dry,<br /> +It is the God like Deity.<br /> +And he can all our griefs expel,<br /> +Altho’ I bid this last farewell;<br /> +These fetters he can quick undo,<br /> +And send me back to live with you;<br /> +May hope with all its balmy power,<br /> +Sooth Hannah in each trying hour,<br /> +Friendship I fear will from you flee,<br /> +Ere I am riding on the sea;<br /> +<!-- page 5--><a name="page1_5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>For the rich will close the door,<br /> +’Gainst those misfortune maketh poor;<br /> +And even in a lucky day,<br /> +The’ll from the brightest object stray;<br /> +And those I’ve injured will descry,<br /> +Your falling state and destiny;<br /> +The G---’s are good and often kind,<br /> +To those where troubles press the mind.<br /> +I hope when I am gone from view,<br /> +Kind friendship they will show to you;<br /> +Great confidence they placed in me,<br /> +Till lured by worldly gaiety;<br /> +Suspicion on me hurl’d its dart,<br /> +Forc’d on a sudden to depart,<br /> +From Children Home and Hannah too,<br /> +Disgraced I fled from public view;<br /> +But justice has a piercing eye,<br /> +Her runners quick did me espy;<br /> +Most fairly tried tho’ guilty found,<br /> +Calmly I heard the dreadful sound;<br /> +That ushered to my anxious heart,<br /> +That I from Hannah must depart;<br /> +For fourteen years ere I shall see<br /> +My troubles o’er and liberty;<br /> +To God my fate and life I trust,<br /> +What he ordains I know is just;<br /> +Whene’er a man from honour stray,<br /> +By vice he’s easy led away;<br /> +<!-- page 6--><a name="page1_6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>To every wicked artful plan,<br /> +That soon entraps the falling man;<br /> +And what increase foreboding tears,<br /> +My little ones are come of years;<br /> +When they demand a father’s aid<br /> +Methinks I hear it justly said,<br /> +I ought that thought before possess,<br /> +Ere I my wife and them distress;<br /> +Extravagance have been the cause;<br /> +That made me act against the laws;<br /> +And you that dress in rich attire,<br /> +And only flippant things admire;<br /> +Extravagance will oft too late,<br /> +Cause you to mourn a culprits fate.<br /> +The name of felon oft I hear,<br /> +That very name increase despair;<br /> +And as I now my fetters view,<br /> +I dread what shortly will ensue;<br /> +Methinks I hear the goaler say,<br /> +This day from her you go away;<br /> +From Britons happy peaceful shore,<br /> +My wife and home to see no more;<br /> +Till fourteen years are roll’d away,<br /> +I shall not see a happy day;<br /> +Oh should that happy time return,<br /> +Then will my heart with rapture burn;<br /> +At such a time my wife to view,<br /> +Would every care of life subdue;<br /> +<!-- page 7--><a name="page1_7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>My children to my arms I’d press,<br /> +And never more cause their distress;<br /> +Hope gently wispers to my heart,<br /> +That ere I long from you depart,<br /> +Those I have injured will obtain<br /> +A mandate to unloose the chain;<br /> +And as they view your wretched state,<br /> +They’ll mourn an absent father’s fate.<br /> +Seldom they ever sue in vain,<br /> +To our loved prince but mostly gain,<br /> +A respite from the pangs of grief,<br /> +Or gain an order for relief;<br /> +I’ve borne the unfeeling keen reproach,<br /> +Some said I longed to keep a coach;<br /> +That I in tendom oft did ride,<br /> +With all an upstarts sullen pride;<br /> +’Twas pride that led me to disgrace,<br /> +I took what I could not replace;<br /> +Had I a million, that I’d give,<br /> +With you in future for to live;<br /> +Oh! Hannah are you come again,<br /> +To sooth my woe and ease my pain;<br /> +Your cheeks I’ve furrowed with sad tears,<br /> +Come gentle hope dismiss those fears;<br /> +That do her tender frame distress,<br /> +Oh! God make Hannah’s sufferings less.<br /> +My last of efforts unless prove,<br /> +My doom I find is fixed above;<br /> +<!-- page 8--><a name="page1_8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>No intercession can obtain,<br /> +A respite from this galling chain.<br /> +I’m doomed to waste some years away,<br /> +Far, far, from you upon the bay.<br /> +Oh keen distress with every ill,<br /> +Obtrude on me the bitter pill;<br /> +While life remains hope will divest<br /> +A gloomy thought tho’ he’s distress’d.<br /> +It feeds the wound yet known no cure,<br /> +And often makes us more indure;<br /> +Sometimes it lulls us into sleep,<br /> +And for a time our senses steep;<br /> +And like a pleasing dream obtain,<br /> +A short abatement from our pain;<br /> +Soon as it vanish from our view,<br /> +Our earthly troubles rise anew;<br /> +Till death unwelcome strikes his dart,<br /> +And ease the captives aching heart:<br /> +But oh! that awful coming day,<br /> +That every mortals crimes display;<br /> +What creatures shall we then appear,<br /> +The Lord’s decree we all must hear;<br /> +May every soul that’s tried above,<br /> +From Christ obtain our maker’s love.<br /> +Oh! God I hear the dreadful call,<br /> +Prepare, prepare, ye felons all;<br /> +Oh! let me take a last imbrace,<br /> +I’m summoned, all appear in haste.</p> +<h2><!-- page 1--><a name="page2_1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +1</span><span class="smcap"><i>the</i></span><br /> +CONVICT’S<br /> +Farewell,<br /> +&c. &c. &c.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">BY J PARKERSON, JUNR.</p> +<p class="poetry">Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell!<br /> +The finest language can but faintly tell,<br /> +What I now feel in writing the adieu,<br /> +What you must suffer when I’m far from you.<br /> +There was a time when happiness my lot,<br /> +I liv’d serenely in my little cot;<br /> +No wicked thoughts did then disturb my rest,<br /> +My children round me, by a father prest;<br /> +No father now methinks I hear them say,<br /> +He’s gone from us, he’s hurried far away.<br /> +Nightly I’ve view’d them in my flurri’d +dreams,<br /> +Seen their wet eyes and heard their dreadful screams;<br /> +Methought my wife came to my lonely cell,<br /> +To say adieu, to bid a long farewell;<br /> +Soon I awoke and to increase my pains,<br /> +I felt my legs encompass’d round with chains;<br /> +Then then, I cried, oh drunkenness thou cause,<br /> +Of this distress, and make me break those laws<br /> +That wise men made for every man to keep,<br /> +By them deluded, plung’d in crimes so deep.<br /> +First step to ruin was a love of dice,<br /> +With cards the great promoter of our vice;<br /> +<!-- page 2--><a name="page2_2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>I wish those men who do with such things play,<br /> +Would ever cast them from their hands away;<br /> +I wish all Magistrates would search around,<br /> +And punish Publicans where they are found:<br /> +They caus’d me first my Master to neglect,<br /> +And after lost me honest men’s respect;<br /> +They also led me from a virtuous wife,<br /> +And mostly caused my sad disgrace and strife.<br /> +View Public Houses every wealthy Squire,<br /> +And force by ten the spendthrift to retire;<br /> +By such a plan the labouring poor would rise,<br /> +Soon as the sun adorns the heavenly skies:<br /> +I’ve stated what have brought me to this end,<br /> +And what has lost me every earthly friend;<br /> +Except a wife—oh God protect and bless,<br /> +Her and our offspring now in great distress.<br /> +Young men be cautious how you spend your time,<br /> +A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime;<br /> +Sometimes an artful female tries her power,<br /> +To trap the giddy in a thoughtless hour;<br /> +When she has work’d the captive to her will,<br /> +She gladly sees you taking sorrow’s pill;<br /> +Cause you to leave a virtuous homely wife,<br /> +And lead a sad disgraceful wicked life;<br /> +Allur’d by art she’ll bring you to distress,<br /> +And like a Millwood to you falsely press:<br /> +Then be the first your actions to betray,<br /> +A fiend like such, caus’d me to go astray<br /> +From them I love, from those my heart hold dear,<br /> +And shall till death their memories revere;<br /> +When I am clos’d in transport on the sea,<br /> +Doubtless my love you’ll sometimes sigh for me.<br /> +Bring up my little ones in such a way,<br /> +As they will holy keep the sabbath-day;<br /> +Early in life do in their minds reveal,<br /> +The dreadful crimes to swear, to lie, or steal.<br /> +<!-- page 3--><a name="page2_3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>Hannah my eldest daughter, place her where,<br /> +She’s constant under virtue’s eye and care,<br /> +Let her not learn the weaving trade, you’ll find,<br /> +That such a course may injure much her mind;<br /> +Females are ready to acquire that art,<br /> +Soon as they wish fair virtue to depart;<br /> +Unwilling oft in service for to be.<br /> +Where they can’t dress and have their liberty;<br /> +But if with parents they can work at home,<br /> +Nightly they hope with idle folks to roam:<br /> +At my late sentence I can not complain,<br /> +Altho’ the law my body do detain;<br /> +Justice tho’ slow has overtaken me,<br /> +Abroad for life, I shall he kept from thee;<br /> +On a just God for ever I will trust,<br /> +I know his will is always right and just.<br /> +Tis now too late again to speak to you,<br /> +Which is the cause of writing this adieu.<br /> +No partner now to sooth my aching heart,<br /> +Reflection galls me, at myself I start,<br /> +With aching heart and in my lonely cell,<br /> +I bid my babes and you,—a long farewell.<br /> +Methink I see the transport full in view,<br /> +And I with horror meet the harden’d crew;<br /> +Full well I know I ne’er shall see you more,<br /> +Nor plant a footstep on my native shore;<br /> +On foreign land I’m doom’d my days to toil,<br /> +And with vile wretches cultivate the soil.<br /> +Stripes I must bare perhaps when quite unwell,<br /> +And hear the convicts’ melancholy yell;<br /> +A pang I fell when e’er I close the night,<br /> +And wish a virtuous wife was in my sight:<br /> +England adieu! may you in trade increase,<br /> +And free from inward tumults rest in peace.<br /> +Our Chaplain well I know, will soon impart,<br /> +His friendly aid to cheer the drooping heart;<br /> +<!-- page 4--><a name="page2_4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +4</span>I hope my children he will learn to read,<br /> +And teach them early to peruse the creed:<br /> +The bell is rung, the waggon is in view,<br /> +Wife and dear children now, adieu! adieu!<br /> +At thoughts of leaving this my native shore,<br /> +Unmans me quite and I can say no more;<br /> +I will thro’ life a better course pursue,<br /> +Tho’ far away shall leave my heart with you.</p> +<h2>ADVICE, &c.</h2> +<p class="poetry">Vile man, abstain from every artful plan,<br /> +When found out disgrace the name of man;<br /> +Let those who steal repent and sin no more,<br /> +Ere Law decrees, its vengeance on them pour:<br /> +From trifling things, we greater ills pursue,<br /> +Till the Law’s fangs are brought within our view;<br /> +Stop, stop bad courses, ere it be too late,<br /> +And justice dooms you to a culprits fate.<br /> +Riots avoid tho’ mischief none you do,<br /> +Your being at them brings a stain on you;<br /> +Those who look on, will afterwards repent,<br /> +And share alike in point of punishment:<br /> +The Law expressly properly declare,<br /> +He adds to tumult that is present there;<br /> +Take my advice let reason bear her sway,<br /> +From scenes of discord, always keep away;<br /> +You’d think it hard a worthless savage crew,<br /> +Should gain by plunder all your goods from you:<br /> +The worst of men are foremost on a plan,<br /> +To gain by rapine every way they can;<br /> +Do you suppose that wasting others store,<br /> +Can ease the hardships of the labouring poor:<br /> +No such a course, our present ills increase,<br /> +And robs the Nation of its inward peace.<br /> +<!-- page 5--><a name="page2_5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>From late example all are taught to know,<br /> +Dreadful his fate that strikes confusion’s blow;<br /> +Then let us quiet at our cots remain,<br /> +And better times will cheer us once again.<br /> +All means of trying, comforts to restore,<br /> +To ease the hardships of the labouring poor;<br /> +Think what distress awaits dishonest ways,<br /> +Immur’d in prison many wretched days;<br /> +Not only days, perhaps they shed their tears,<br /> +In foreign lands for many dismal years;<br /> +Not only years, perhaps are doom’d for life,<br /> +Abroad to roam, from children, home and wife:<br /> +Should it your lot in prison for to be,<br /> +Implore with fervent prayer the Deity;<br /> +Who will in time if you sincerely pray,<br /> +Lessen your troubles each succeeding day:<br /> +It’s thro’ our Saviour’s aid that we should +crave,<br /> +A gracious pardon ere we meet the grave;<br /> +His intercession with the king of Kings,<br /> +Alone can save you from eternal stings.<br /> +When at the court for trial you appear,<br /> +Speak nought but truth you better for it fare;<br /> +For should you dare to introduce a lie,<br /> +Justice’s sharp eye each falsehood will descry:<br /> +The guilty felon, of his crime is clear:<br /> +Dismay’d confus’d, he feels alas! too late,<br /> +Such impious conduct greatly aggravate;<br /> +Besides he answers at the awful day,<br /> +For causing others from the truth to stray.<br /> +Whatever happens in this vale of tears,<br /> +Our Maker knows, give him your fervent prayers:<br /> +Let your demeanor if in prison be,<br /> +Such as the jailor can contrition see;<br /> +For his report may mitigate your doom,<br /> +And sometimes save you from a prison’s gloom.<br /> +<!-- page 6--><a name="page2_6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>Religious books if you can read attend,<br /> +They are in solitude the pris’ner’s friend;<br /> +When at the Chapel, do not cast away,<br /> +By inattention what the Chaplain say:<br /> +It’s pure Religion cheers each good man’s heart,<br +/> +And will in time its blessings soon impart;<br /> +Such as perhaps you never knew before,<br /> +And doubtless will your peace of mind restore.<br /> +The Bible read, when in your dismal cell,<br /> +Read it attentive ere you bid farewell;<br /> +To him who may companion with you be;<br /> +Your soul that night may be required of thee.<br /> + A scene I witnessed, and not long time since,<br /> +Would stop the errors of an hardened prince;<br /> +Three men were sentenc’d by the law to die,<br /> +To hear them mourn, to see the drooping eye;<br /> +Would cause sensations of a painful kind,<br /> +While anxious cares corode the tortur’d mind.<br /> +A pious Chaplain strove to bring in view,<br /> +The proferr’d pardon if repentants true.<br /> +He said that God was merciful and just,<br /> +To implore forgiveness on his word to trust;<br /> +There is a record where the scripture say,<br /> +Those that repent he will not cast away;<br /> +A sigh or tear can not that boon impart,<br /> +It must be fervent from the head and heart:<br /> +Thro’ Jesus’ aid vile sinners doth he save,<br /> +If true repentants ere they meet the grave.<br /> +Each wish’d they could recal the time that’s past,<br +/> +And they would live as if each day the last:<br /> +Just before death they pray’d me to implore,<br /> +An erring mortal to transgress no more;<br /> +Hope their lov’d Chaplain might, for ever be<br /> +When call’d on high blessed to eternity;<br /> +They knew his worth his heart is of a kind,<br /> +That plants soft pity to a feeling mind:<br /> +<!-- page 7--><a name="page2_7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Deeker, as Chaplain, few can e’er excel,<br /> +Belov’d by all who bids the jail farewell.<br /> +When first I saw those wretched men in jail,<br /> +Before their trial, did their fate bewail;<br /> +Soon as the sentence met each anxious ear,<br /> +Resign’d and true repentants did appear;<br /> +One and all cried out, oh that God how just!<br /> +To stop our sad career, on thee we’ll trust;<br /> +One cause alone have made this sore distress,<br /> +Neglecting lord’s day and our drunkenness.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h2><i>Ode to the Memory of the late lamented</i><br /> +SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY</h2> +<p class="poetry">Well may Britons waft the sigh,<br /> + Since Romilly’s no more;<br /> +Till our existance from us fly,<br /> + We shall his loss deplore.</p> +<p class="poetry">Oh! death thy keen unwelcome dart,<br /> + Caus’d Briton’s tears to flow;<br /> +’Twas you compell’d him to depart,<br /> + And gave the deadly blow.</p> +<p class="poetry">His virtues we shall long retain,<br /> + They are planted in each breast;<br /> +Till death they will with us remain,<br /> + By all he was carest.</p> +<p class="poetry">I oft have heard his accents sweet,<br /> + Flow graceful from his tongue.<br /> +Applause would all his efforts greet,<br /> + For music on them hung.</p> +<p class="poetry">His reasoning powers none could excel,<br /> + For truth appeared in view;<br /> +As <i>orator</i> he spoke so well,<br /> + It oft compassion drew.</p> +<p class="poetry"><!-- page 8--><a name="page2_8"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 8</span>The callous heart could not refrain<br +/> + To shed soft Pity’s tear;<br /> +He spoke in such pathetic strain,<br /> + As caused the falling tear.</p> +<p class="poetry">He set the injured captive free,<br /> + Oppression wou’d subdue;<br /> +A zealous friend to liberty,<br /> + And Briton’s knew it true.</p> +<p class="poetry">Whene’er his duty would allow,<br /> + He’d seek domestic joy;<br /> +To stern afflictions forc’d to bow,<br /> + And that all peace destroy.</p> +<p class="poetry">His loss, we ever shall deplore,<br /> + And may his spirit rest<br /> +With virtuous souls long call’d before,<br /> + And numbered with the blest.</p> +<p class="poetry">Yet ere his spirit fled away,<br /> + God summoned her above,<br /> +Who passed with him each happy day,<br /> + And gave him love for love.</p> +<p class="poetry">Oh may his offspring never feel,<br /> + Those pangs he did endure;<br /> +No friendly aid the wound could heal,<br /> + Nor medicine health procure.</p> +<p class="poetry">May our redeemer pardon gain,<br /> + For him and for us all;<br /> +Soon as we cease from earthly pain,<br /> + Or God our spirits call.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p2_8.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative divider" +title= +"Decorative divider" +src="images/p2_8.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Walker, Printer, near the +Duke’s Palace, Norwich.</p> +<h2><!-- page 1--><a name="page3_1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +1</span>AN ADDRESS<br /> +<span class="smcap">to the</span><br /> +NORFOLK YEOMAN<br /> +<span class="smcap">on the</span><br /> +<i>Importation of</i><br /> +FOREIGN GRAIN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">BY J. PARKERSON, JUN</p> +<p class="poetry">On Foreign grain a duty lay,<br /> +Good Ministers I pray I pray,<br /> +If you our humble suit decline,<br /> +How can we meet and take our wine;<br /> +Chat about prices at Mark Lane,<br /> +To drink a bottle an’t’ prophane;<br /> +Did Mr. Pitt one night decline,<br /> +To call to aid the generous wine.<br /> +C---s cannot at times keep sober,<br /> +If they are tempted by October;<br /> +Sometimes a R---t---r takes a glass<br /> +Of spirits with a pretty lass;<br /> +Another thing I can define,<br /> +A B---p may get drunk with wine;<br /> +If it is placed within his view,<br /> +He acts as other people do;<br /> +Like us sometimes is prone to sin,<br /> +When Satan is alive within;<br /> +<!-- page 2--><a name="page3_2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>Sometimes successful he may be,<br /> +With B---s Sir as well as we;<br /> +And oft it does my feelings shock,<br /> +To see how dizzy is their flock;<br /> +So hard will they horses ride,<br /> +As if it was their daily pride.<br /> +Themselves and order to disgrace,<br /> +By being at a Foxes chase;<br /> +To see a cock fight won’t decline,<br /> +A country P---n tho’ divine;<br /> +But oh! upon a sabbath day,<br /> +How grave they look how much they pray.<br /> +Perhaps for sinners in this life,<br /> +Or to chat with neighbours wife.<br /> +A P---n in a country place,<br /> +Not long ago incur’d disgrace,<br /> +A neighbour went a dame to see,<br /> +A merry one as well could be;<br /> +A cock’d hat laid upon a chair,<br /> +This Sir is true I do declare;<br /> +She call’d, she knock’d, no answer made,<br /> +Upstairs she went without perade;<br /> +The P---n quick the curtains drew,<br /> +To keep the stranger from his view;<br /> +The neighbour said I make thus free,<br /> +As you invited me to tea;<br /> +But as you have a stranger here,<br /> +I do intrude I greatly fear.<br /> +I oft have heard the people say,<br /> +She took the P---n’s hat away;<br /> +But ere she reached her happy home,<br /> +The P---n to her quick did roam,<br /> +Says he good woman that’s my hat!<br /> +You know not what you have been at;<br /> +Give it me and never say,<br /> +What you have witness’d and I’ll pay<br /> +<!-- page 3--><a name="page3_3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>You well to let the matter rest,<br /> +Within your own untroubled breast<br /> +No no, says she this hat I’ll give,<br /> +Your wife as I do hope to live;<br /> +And tell her where I found it laid,<br /> +My trouble will be well repaid;<br /> +So R---d Sir to you adieu,<br /> +Your conduct I’ll expose to view.<br /> + I’ll speak of foreign grain again,<br /> +Hope your attention to detain;<br /> +Let Ministers a duty lay,<br /> +And make the foreign farmer pay<br /> +A certain sum on all he send,<br /> +Of grain into this fertile land.<br /> +Corn Laws are needless I protest,<br /> +To be without them would be best;<br /> +When crops are thin then grain would sell,<br /> +No doubt in Mark Lane very well:<br /> +At such a year then foreign grain,<br /> +Would flock into our ports again;<br /> +Soon an ’twas found enough was sent,<br /> +To answer every good intent,<br /> +A privy council should declare,<br /> +No more should come the present year;<br /> +We give to foreign farmers aid,<br /> +And starve our own I am afraid.<br /> +Free the farmer of all taxes,<br /> +The present ones their minds perplexes;<br /> +Double or quit the landlords say,<br /> +Ease the farmer, <i>make them</i> pay.<br /> +Their farms produce them such high price,<br /> +In paying taxes can’t be nice;<br /> +Let P---s ease the farmers cares,<br /> +Theirs is all wheat they get no tares:<br /> +The tithes they have advanced so high,<br /> +That make the farmer almost cry,<br /> +<!-- page 4--><a name="page3_4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +4</span>Compel them to throw back a part,<br /> +At least a tenth to cheer the heart;<br /> +Out of the sum that’s paid for tithe,<br /> +That would the farmers mind revive<br /> +And tenth of rent they ought to pay,<br /> +To drive the farmers grief away:<br /> +Yeomen are forced to go to plough,<br /> +Then make a P---n milk a cow;<br /> +Keep sheep that task they can’t decline,<br /> +Or help to feed the fowls and swine.<br /> +I think that is a cleaver plan,<br /> +’Twould often save a lad or man;<br /> +And as they share a tenth produce,<br /> +They are bound to make themselves of use;<br /> +They ought to teach the youth the creed,<br /> +And little girls to spell and read:<br /> +They like a fox chase or a play,<br /> +To kill the vacant time away;<br /> +Or cards or balls or such like things,<br /> +Fit only for the eye of Kings.<br /> +On Sundays see how quick they walk<br /> +Into a church to preach or talk;<br /> +So quick they’ll range the sermon o’er,<br /> +As you their folly must deplore.<br /> +A pointer and a spaniel lay,<br /> +Behind the R—t—r. when he pray;<br /> +And now and then the dogs will bark,<br /> +Which much disturb the sleepy clerk;<br /> +He takes and pull them by the ears,<br /> +Which much disturb the man of prayers.<br /> +Soon as he thinks his dinner’s fit,<br /> +He hurries home to ease the spit:<br /> +Thank God he has no more to pray,<br /> +To clowns until next sabbath day;<br /> +When that arrives oh how he sigh,<br /> +To know his trouble is so nigh!<br /> +<!-- page 5--><a name="page3_5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>Reluctant he to church repair,<br /> +Yet not omit to view the fair:<br /> +So as to catch the darting eye,<br /> +The P---n give when he descry;<br /> +She is at leisure to impart,<br /> +A smile to cheer his drooping heart:<br /> +Soon as he leaves the sacred place,<br /> +He anxiously the female trace,<br /> +To pass with her a merry joke,<br /> +Or else her passion to invoke,<br /> +In such a way as suits his mind,<br /> +If she is to sly fun inclined.<br /> +Many a poor man feeds a boy,<br /> +Where P---s leisure time employ;<br /> +A poor man’s wife I’ve seen dress fine,<br /> +And gain the means from a D—e;<br /> +If they have money for to spare,<br /> +They’ll will bestow it on the fair<br /> +The Cambridge ladies know it well,<br /> +I only do the truth now tell;<br /> +I’ve known a footman gain a place,<br /> +To save a C---e from disgrace;<br /> +He gains a calf as well as cow,<br /> +To manage matters they know how;<br /> +Poor Tom don’t mind if he can find,<br /> +The P---n have a generous mind;<br /> +They always should to business stick,<br /> +Correct their flock read to the sick;<br /> +Too oft they do that task delay,<br /> +They are the first to go astray.<br /> +They ne’er should be a M---g---e,<br /> +It makes the people oft them hate;<br /> +From them no milk of kindness flow,<br /> +It’s seldom mercy they will show.<br /> +Too oft they do to prison send,<br /> +A man his future life to mend;<br /> +<!-- page 6--><a name="page3_6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>He learns in such a place to be,<br /> +A hardened villian you may see.<br /> +Soon as his liberty he gain,<br /> +From acts of tumult wont abstain;<br /> +From every virtue he’s bereft,<br /> +By company he’s lately kept;<br /> +Small faults it’s better to look o’er,<br /> +And tell them for to sin no more:<br /> +A bridewell often inmates have,<br /> +Who do for others riches crave:<br /> +In the same cell a boy is placed,<br /> +That have incur’d some slight disgrace;<br /> +Often he’s placed with such a man<br /> +As teach him mischief all he can.<br /> +The boy goes out well versed in art,<br /> +That his late inmates did impart;<br /> +As soon as he his freedom gain,<br /> +Do that which causeth grief and pain;<br /> +Grown more familiar to a plan,<br /> +Of robbing others all he can.<br /> +And whilst in prison he was taught,<br /> +To tell a lie to screen a fault;<br /> +His brother prisoners did him teach,<br /> +To crib all trifles in his reach;<br /> +Too oft he’s led by poachers where<br /> +To fang a bird or catch a hare:<br /> +And by advice he choose a spot<br /> +Where rambling Keepers see him not.<br /> +Poachers I think are less to blame<br /> +Then those that often buy the game.<br /> +There is a God that dwells on high,<br /> +Who will all mortals faults descry;<br /> +Should he no mercy to them show,<br /> +And send the men of prayers below,<br /> +Where Satan dwells and where he reigns,<br /> +To plant on sinners chains and pains;<br /> +<!-- page 7--><a name="page3_7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>With man let mercy constant rest,<br /> +For ever in the mind and breast.<br /> +Mercy I fear they never knew,<br /> +Or if they did it from them flew;<br /> +For virtue only can be found,<br /> +Where hearts are good minds are sound;<br /> +Humanity few e’er possess’d,<br /> +They cannot keep it in their breast.<br /> +No, arrogance and pride there dwell,<br /> +The poor around all know it well;<br /> +Seldom will ope a gaudy door,<br /> +To give a penny to the poor:<br /> +Yet glad would do it any day,<br /> +To turn the applicant away;<br /> +Or else to prison send the man,<br /> +And gladly punish all they can.<br /> +All fain would be a Demi God,<br /> +To hold the sharp chastising rod;<br /> +Esteem’d by few, by none revered,<br /> +And by the poor man greatly feared;<br /> +No longer I’ll this theme pursue,<br /> +But bid the haughty Sirs, adieu.<br /> +A good divine shall be my theme,<br /> +The villiage did him much esteem;<br /> +A poor distress’d Italian youth,<br /> +Whose features bore the marks of truth;<br /> +Call’d at the parson’s door to say,<br /> +The night was dark he’d lost his way;<br /> +The good divine observed the lad<br /> +Was sorrowful and thinly clad,<br /> +“Step in” says he and shut the door,<br /> +“Sometimes I feed the needy poor.<br /> +Your outward guarb bespeaks distress,<br /> +This night I’ll make your troubles less.”<br /> +The youth with gratitude replied,<br /> +To earn my living is my pride;<br /> +<!-- page 8--><a name="page3_8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>Pictures I sell and glasses too,<br /> +Much cheaper then you’ll find a jew;<br /> +And soon most pleasing to his eye,<br /> +Was ushered a good mutton pie;<br /> +And further to afford relief,<br /> +Beside the pye a piece of beef;<br /> +And likewise quick his heart to cheer,<br /> +Between the two a pint of beer.<br /> +All night he staid the morning came,<br /> +The Parson asked the boy his name;<br /> +My name is luckless he replies,<br /> +Tears were streaming from his eyes;<br /> +Pray do you like this wandering life,<br /> +No says the lad it causeth strife.<br /> +A joiners business sir I crave,<br /> +From selling pictures could I save<br /> +Enough, I’d soon a master find,<br /> +And to him myself I’d bind.<br /> +The Parson soon a master found,<br /> +Cloathed the youth and gave ten pound.<br /> +He served his time so well ’tis said,<br /> +As soon his charity repaid.<br /> +He gained a living by his trade,<br /> +The Parson gave without parade.<br /> +And at the Reverend’s death ’twas found,<br /> +He left his boy five hundred pound,<br /> +He call’d the boy tho’ grown a man,<br /> +Excel this action if you can.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p3_8.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative divider" +title= +"Decorative divider" +src="images/p3_8.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Printed by R. Walker, Norwich.</p> +<h2><!-- page 3--><a name="page4_3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>A Description of the Pine-apple at Trowse.</h2> +<p class="poetry">Both beauty and art have exerted their +skill,<br /> +You will find on a spot near the brow of a hill;<br /> +The hill is near Norwich and call’d Bracondale,<br /> +I stept into Vince’s myself to regale.<br /> +The landlord I found Sir adopted one plan,<br /> +To please all his customers all that he can;<br /> +Some Topsmen I found had come to the spot,<br /> +To look at their darlings, each good hardy Scot;<br /> +When business was o’er they did not decline,<br /> +To take a few bottles of Vince’s port wine;<br /> +The flavour was such they could not refrain,<br /> +To fill up a bumper again and again.<br /> +I found these good fellows are men of sense,<br /> +That to learning and knowledge may lay a pretence;<br /> +Most of these gentlemen always can find,<br /> +A stranger’s good converse to cherish the mind.<br /> +When they went away, in the garden, I stray’d,<br /> +And do not repent there a visit I paid,<br /> +There was pinks, there was roses, and cucumbers too,<br /> +And peas of the finest I ever did view:<br /> +The evergreens pleas’d me their odour was sweet,<br /> +And a thousand of other sweet shrubs did I meet,<br /> +But oh what sweet pleasures your mind to fulfil.<br /> +Is the view that you have on the top of the hill.<br /> +The river delighteth the mind and the eye<br /> +On which you see wherries constant pass by,<br /> +Besides there is barges that proudly do ride,<br /> +With packets to Yarmouth assisted by tide;<br /> +<!-- page 4--><a name="page4_4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +4</span>There’s low-lands and up-lands that gladden the +sight,<br /> +And a thousand sweet objects the mind to delight<br /> +And such view of the city as must please the eye,<br /> +A thousand old buildings you there may descry;<br /> +Oh this is a garden I said to myself,<br /> +That was I a man that had plenty of wealth,<br /> +I would ramble to daily, myself to regale,<br /> +For Vince I well know have some fine flavour’d ale;<br /> +And those that have tasted his porter declare,<br /> +That two or three glasses the spirits will cheer;<br /> +Here’s Jamaca Rum that will gladden the heart<br /> +The flavour of which will much pleasure impart;<br /> +His Hollands you’d find would soon make you merry,<br /> +And your cheeks my good Sir look as red as a cherry;<br /> +But oh for his Brandy put that in a bowl,<br /> +With his very strong Rum & ’twould soon cheer the +soul.<br /> +His best English Gin will banish all care,<br /> +If you take but enough I vow and declare;<br /> +He keeps Cows to afford you a little good stuff,<br /> +If you only will add to it Rum quite enough;<br /> +Besides with your Hautboys he will find you cream<br /> +Now do not suppose that this is a dream;<br /> +Step into Vince’s and you’ll find it true,<br /> +That what I have stated may be found by you;<br /> +For your steed or you poney there’s a stable I say,<br /> +That is kept clean and neat with the finest of hay.<br /> +And his friends from the north who do bullocks sell,<br /> +Know that he lodges their cattle quite well;<br /> +He has all the means to keep them clean & warm,<br /> +And shelter those creatures from rain & from storm<br /> +<!-- page 5--><a name="page4_5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>There’s plenty of acres to give them full scope,<br +/> +And plenty of feed if their mouths they will ope;<br /> +Their bellies they may most rapidly fill,<br /> +To give them a plenty I know is his will;<br /> +I have oft heard him say that he great pleasure take,<br /> +In providing for stock for each owner’s sake,<br /> +And that he determines no pains he would spare,<br /> +To take care of cattle that’s under his care;<br /> +Indeed I believe that all his friends find,<br /> +To afford satisfaction he’s always inclin’d;<br /> +And all those that think proper at his house to stray,<br /> +Shall never have cause to complain when away:<br /> +He thanks all his friends for each favour that’s past,<br +/> +And hopes that each visit will not be the last;<br /> +His efforts to please them he’ll strongly renew,<br /> +And each friend that call shall soon find it true;<br /> +Most fully determined such liquor to sell,<br /> +As all shall declare that they like it quite well;<br /> +I believe that in summer no spot is more fit,<br /> +To brace up the nerves to those that need it.<br /> +The air is so fine that it cherish the frame,<br /> +Besides there’s another great pleasure I’ll name,<br +/> +But a very short mile and the journey is o’er,<br /> +Ere they can walk in at the Pine-apple door;<br /> +I mean for those friends who for pleasure do stray<br /> +That near is the distance as I have heard say,<br /> +I’m sure that no one will have cause to repine,<br /> +At the distance from Norwich when wheather is fine,<br /> +The garden produces such store sir in May,<br /> +As induce you to take some on going away;<br /> +<!-- page 6--><a name="page4_6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>Cucumbers and other things there you may buy,<br /> +So early I’m told as delighteth the eye,<br /> +To do it no pains nor expences he spare,<br /> +That Vince’s good friends may have something that’s +rare;<br /> +Another thing early the Ladies to please,<br /> +He grows in the garden the sweetest of peas,<br /> +And if in the spring there are nice cooling showers,<br /> +The same time will send them the choisest of flowers,<br /> +The garden most people from Norwich invite,<br /> +As that is his pride and daily delight;<br /> +There are seats and good harbours your time to invite,<br /> +When smoaking your pipe to afford you delight,<br /> +The house tho’ not gaudy is always kept clean,<br /> +Or at least I do say as mostly is seen;<br /> +He keeps lively fires in winter I’m told,<br /> +To keep his good friends when there catching cold,<br /> +And oh his tobacco most people approve,<br /> +It handles you’ll find quite as soft as a dove;<br /> +His pipes are glaz’d high you will find at the end,<br /> +Such as you’d wish to bestow on a friend.<br /> +Indeed in the mansion no pains will he spare,<br /> +To gain him applause or your spirits to cheer;<br /> +He’s grateful to all both rich and poor,<br /> +That choose to step in at the Pine-apple door.<br /> +He wish all to spend no more than they please,<br /> +To joke, drink, and laugh, & be merry at ease,<br /> +Harmonious parties he likes for to see,<br /> +That delight in good friendship and sing a good glee,<br /> +A song now and then will enliven the heart,<br /> +And make us unwilling till late to depart.</p> +<h2><!-- page 7--><a name="page4_7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>THE WIVERTON BOY;<br /> +<i>Or</i>, <i>Sailor Returned</i>.</h2> +<p class="poetry">On Wiverton Green a boy was found,<br /> +Weeping his fate upon the ground;<br /> +Compassion soon the helpless drew,<br /> +To give him aid they instant flew;<br /> +The overseer quick took the youth,<br /> +Matured him in the paths of truth;<br /> +At proper age they sought to find,<br /> +What calling suited best his mind;<br /> +Upon the main he wished to try,<br /> +His fortune and his destiny.<br /> +Quick to a merchant ship was sent,<br /> +He braved the stormy eliment;<br /> +Intrepid courage gave him aid,<br /> +And due attention well he paid,<br /> +To every order that he heard,<br /> +And by the crew was much revered;<br /> +At riper years became a mate,<br /> +In the same ship he tried his fate;<br /> +His master died he took his place,<br /> +His tutor he did not disgrace,<br /> +He soon became a man of wealth,<br /> +Adorned with riches, strength, and health.<br /> +<!-- page 8--><a name="page4_8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>Tired of the sea he came on shore,<br /> +His Wiverton friends to see once more.<br /> +Each hailed the happy pleasing day,<br /> +They view’d the orphan nam’d Greenway.<br /> +The tear of sorrow from him flew,<br /> +When he the fatal spot did view;<br /> +Says he this village fostered me,<br /> +Till I embarked upon the sea.<br /> +Part of my earnings will I give,<br /> +That poorer souls may better live;<br /> +He bought the Briston tithes to do<br /> +A generous act outdone by few;<br /> +And soon as bought gave them away,<br /> +To those that named him young Greenway.<br /> +In trust to aid the needy poor,<br /> +Who will till death his name adore.<br /> +Owing to times it will be found,<br /> +These tithes have fetched three hundred pound;<br /> +And Wiverton poor have every year,<br /> +A sum that keeps them from despair;<br /> +And oft they cry we bless the day,<br /> +That brought to us our good Greenway.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Knighted Sir Richard Greenway.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">FINIS.</p> +<p><a name="footnote1"></a><a href="#citation1" +class="footnote">[1]</a> The composition of this eText 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +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. + + + _PRICE_ 2_s._ + + * * * * * + + + + + + SKETCHES + _IN VERSE_; + Respectfully Addressed + TO THE + _NORFOLK YEOMENRY_, + + + * * * * * + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUN. + + * * * * * + + VIZ. + + * * * * * + +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} + + + * * * * * + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUNR. + + * * * * * + + 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 will keep aloft; + Show him a sample of good Brank or Rye, + He'll bid you low and look extremely shy: + This is the case if Mark Lane's very dull, + And all his granaries are very full. + Yet if the market keep upon the rise, + Tho' bad your sample that he'll not despise, + Purchase as much as he can gain that day, + Or from his net proceeds afford to pay; + 'Tant always markets make a merchant dull, + It is the banker on him has a pull; + That often gives despair or cause a gloom, + He fears an order to the sweating room. + I've known that happen on a market day, + Then from the mart he's forc'd to keep away, + Sometimes G. R. locks up the malt house door, + From an extent and makes him sad and poor; + A country house and a new fashioned gig, + He keeps to make him look at markets big; + Soon as demands upon him loudly call, + He say to day I shant attend the hall: + The clerk announce his master is unwell, + Yet purchase all you are inclined to sell; + And when for payment you may on him call, + Leaves Norwich mart and can't be found at all; + And when a stoppage happens farmers quake, + Then cry who'd thought that such a man would break; + To take off merchants I am quite unwilling, + At first set off, some are not worth a shilling; + A loss at sea they cannot long withstand, + Can't call their own an acre of good land; + Yet I protest, pace all our city round, + I don't know one that is not just and sound; + They deal with honour and are men of trade, + Keep up their payments and disdain parade; + At times a farmer often do complain, + If now and then they do refuse his grain; + Sometimes he sells a sample of hard beans, + On market days and after sends his teams; + The merchant do the article refuse, + For in the sacks much softer grain he views; + The reason's plain he can't the bulk admire, + The sample was improved from a large fire; + Soon as he comes to where he do set up, + Of London Porter oft he takes a sup; + The sample in his pocket, there he'll stay + By a good fire and chat two hours away; + Of altering samples he pays no regard, + But such a conduct makes the sample hard; + Then he complains if a reduction's made, + That he's in fault you cannot him persuade; + Friction will much improve most sorts of grain, + You on this subject no longer i'll detain. + + + + +On Mr. L--- + + +_Taking leave of his Wife and Children_, _who was Sentenced to +__Transportation for Fourteen Years_. + + * * * * * + + FROM LIFE. + + * * * * * + + Hannah farewell I'm bound to go, + To taste the bitter draught of woe; + And as I view that starting tear, + It drives and sinks me to despair; + And now I take a last farewell, + The grief I feel no one can tell; + Two lovely children claims my care, + I'm forc'd to clothe them with despair; + As sorrow only on them press, + They are doomed to wear no other dress; + We little thought some former years, + In such a place to shed our tears; + There's only one our tears can dry, + It is the God like Deity. + And he can all our griefs expel, + Altho' I bid this last farewell; + These fetters he can quick undo, + And send me back to live with you; + May hope with all its balmy power, + Sooth Hannah in each trying hour, + Friendship I fear will from you flee, + Ere I am riding on the sea; + For the rich will close the door, + 'Gainst those misfortune maketh poor; + And even in a lucky day, + The'll from the brightest object stray; + And those I've injured will descry, + Your falling state and destiny; + The G---'s are good and often kind, + To those where troubles press the mind. + I hope when I am gone from view, + Kind friendship they will show to you; + Great confidence they placed in me, + Till lured by worldly gaiety; + Suspicion on me hurl'd its dart, + Forc'd on a sudden to depart, + From Children Home and Hannah too, + Disgraced I fled from public view; + But justice has a piercing eye, + Her runners quick did me espy; + Most fairly tried tho' guilty found, + Calmly I heard the dreadful sound; + That ushered to my anxious heart, + That I from Hannah must depart; + For fourteen years ere I shall see + My troubles o'er and liberty; + To God my fate and life I trust, + What he ordains I know is just; + Whene'er a man from honour stray, + By vice he's easy led away; + To every wicked artful plan, + That soon entraps the falling man; + And what increase foreboding tears, + My little ones are come of years; + When they demand a father's aid + Methinks I hear it justly said, + I ought that thought before possess, + Ere I my wife and them distress; + Extravagance have been the cause; + That made me act against the laws; + And you that dress in rich attire, + And only flippant things admire; + Extravagance will oft too late, + Cause you to mourn a culprits fate. + The name of felon oft I hear, + That very name increase despair; + And as I now my fetters view, + I dread what shortly will ensue; + Methinks I hear the goaler say, + This day from her you go away; + From Britons happy peaceful shore, + My wife and home to see no more; + Till fourteen years are roll'd away, + I shall not see a happy day; + Oh should that happy time return, + Then will my heart with rapture burn; + At such a time my wife to view, + Would every care of life subdue; + My children to my arms I'd press, + And never more cause their distress; + Hope gently wispers to my heart, + That ere I long from you depart, + Those I have injured will obtain + A mandate to unloose the chain; + And as they view your wretched state, + They'll mourn an absent father's fate. + Seldom they ever sue in vain, + To our loved prince but mostly gain, + A respite from the pangs of grief, + Or gain an order for relief; + I've borne the unfeeling keen reproach, + Some said I longed to keep a coach; + That I in tendom oft did ride, + With all an upstarts sullen pride; + 'Twas pride that led me to disgrace, + I took what I could not replace; + Had I a million, that I'd give, + With you in future for to live; + Oh! Hannah are you come again, + To sooth my woe and ease my pain; + Your cheeks I've furrowed with sad tears, + Come gentle hope dismiss those fears; + That do her tender frame distress, + Oh! God make Hannah's sufferings less. + My last of efforts unless prove, + My doom I find is fixed above; + No intercession can obtain, + A respite from this galling chain. + I'm doomed to waste some years away, + Far, far, from you upon the bay. + Oh keen distress with every ill, + Obtrude on me the bitter pill; + While life remains hope will divest + A gloomy thought tho' he's distress'd. + It feeds the wound yet known no cure, + And often makes us more indure; + Sometimes it lulls us into sleep, + And for a time our senses steep; + And like a pleasing dream obtain, + A short abatement from our pain; + Soon as it vanish from our view, + Our earthly troubles rise anew; + Till death unwelcome strikes his dart, + And ease the captives aching heart: + But oh! that awful coming day, + That every mortals crimes display; + What creatures shall we then appear, + The Lord's decree we all must hear; + May every soul that's tried above, + From Christ obtain our maker's love. + Oh! God I hear the dreadful call, + Prepare, prepare, ye felons all; + Oh! let me take a last imbrace, + I'm summoned, all appear in haste. + + + + +_THE_ +CONVICT'S +Farewell, +&c. &c. &c. + + + BY J PARKERSON, JUNR. + + Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell! + The finest language can but faintly tell, + What I now feel in writing the adieu, + What you must suffer when I'm far from you. + There was a time when happiness my lot, + I liv'd serenely in my little cot; + No wicked thoughts did then disturb my rest, + My children round me, by a father prest; + No father now methinks I hear them say, + He's gone from us, he's hurried far away. + Nightly I've view'd them in my flurri'd dreams, + Seen their wet eyes and heard their dreadful screams; + Methought my wife came to my lonely cell, + To say adieu, to bid a long farewell; + Soon I awoke and to increase my pains, + I felt my legs encompass'd round with chains; + Then then, I cried, oh drunkenness thou cause, + Of this distress, and make me break those laws + That wise men made for every man to keep, + By them deluded, plung'd in crimes so deep. + First step to ruin was a love of dice, + With cards the great promoter of our vice; + I wish those men who do with such things play, + Would ever cast them from their hands away; + I wish all Magistrates would search around, + And punish Publicans where they are found: + They caus'd me first my Master to neglect, + And after lost me honest men's respect; + They also led me from a virtuous wife, + And mostly caused my sad disgrace and strife. + View Public Houses every wealthy Squire, + And force by ten the spendthrift to retire; + By such a plan the labouring poor would rise, + Soon as the sun adorns the heavenly skies: + I've stated what have brought me to this end, + And what has lost me every earthly friend; + Except a wife--oh God protect and bless, + Her and our offspring now in great distress. + Young men be cautious how you spend your time, + A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime; + Sometimes an artful female tries her power, + To trap the giddy in a thoughtless hour; + When she has work'd the captive to her will, + She gladly sees you taking sorrow's pill; + Cause you to leave a virtuous homely wife, + And lead a sad disgraceful wicked life; + Allur'd by art she'll bring you to distress, + And like a Millwood to you falsely press: + Then be the first your actions to betray, + A fiend like such, caus'd me to go astray + From them I love, from those my heart hold dear, + And shall till death their memories revere; + When I am clos'd in transport on the sea, + Doubtless my love you'll sometimes sigh for me. + Bring up my little ones in such a way, + As they will holy keep the sabbath-day; + Early in life do in their minds reveal, + The dreadful crimes to swear, to lie, or steal. + Hannah my eldest daughter, place her where, + She's constant under virtue's eye and care, + Let her not learn the weaving trade, you'll find, + That such a course may injure much her mind; + Females are ready to acquire that art, + Soon as they wish fair virtue to depart; + Unwilling oft in service for to be. + Where they can't dress and have their liberty; + But if with parents they can work at home, + Nightly they hope with idle folks to roam: + At my late sentence I can not complain, + Altho' the law my body do detain; + Justice tho' slow has overtaken me, + Abroad for life, I shall he kept from thee; + On a just God for ever I will trust, + I know his will is always right and just. + Tis now too late again to speak to you, + Which is the cause of writing this adieu. + No partner now to sooth my aching heart, + Reflection galls me, at myself I start, + With aching heart and in my lonely cell, + I bid my babes and you,--a long farewell. + Methink I see the transport full in view, + And I with horror meet the harden'd crew; + Full well I know I ne'er shall see you more, + Nor plant a footstep on my native shore; + On foreign land I'm doom'd my days to toil, + And with vile wretches cultivate the soil. + Stripes I must bare perhaps when quite unwell, + And hear the convicts' melancholy yell; + A pang I fell when e'er I close the night, + And wish a virtuous wife was in my sight: + England adieu! may you in trade increase, + And free from inward tumults rest in peace. + Our Chaplain well I know, will soon impart, + His friendly aid to cheer the drooping heart; + I hope my children he will learn to read, + And teach them early to peruse the creed: + The bell is rung, the waggon is in view, + Wife and dear children now, adieu! adieu! + At thoughts of leaving this my native shore, + Unmans me quite and I can say no more; + I will thro' life a better course pursue, + Tho' far away shall leave my heart with you. + + + + +ADVICE, &c. + + + Vile man, abstain from every artful plan, + When found out disgrace the name of man; + Let those who steal repent and sin no more, + Ere Law decrees, its vengeance on them pour: + From trifling things, we greater ills pursue, + Till the Law's fangs are brought within our view; + Stop, stop bad courses, ere it be too late, + And justice dooms you to a culprits fate. + Riots avoid tho' mischief none you do, + Your being at them brings a stain on you; + Those who look on, will afterwards repent, + And share alike in point of punishment: + The Law expressly properly declare, + He adds to tumult that is present there; + Take my advice let reason bear her sway, + From scenes of discord, always keep away; + You'd think it hard a worthless savage crew, + Should gain by plunder all your goods from you: + The worst of men are foremost on a plan, + To gain by rapine every way they can; + Do you suppose that wasting others store, + Can ease the hardships of the labouring poor: + No such a course, our present ills increase, + And robs the Nation of its inward peace. + From late example all are taught to know, + Dreadful his fate that strikes confusion's blow; + Then let us quiet at our cots remain, + And better times will cheer us once again. + All means of trying, comforts to restore, + To ease the hardships of the labouring poor; + Think what distress awaits dishonest ways, + Immur'd in prison many wretched days; + Not only days, perhaps they shed their tears, + In foreign lands for many dismal years; + Not only years, perhaps are doom'd for life, + Abroad to roam, from children, home and wife: + Should it your lot in prison for to be, + Implore with fervent prayer the Deity; + Who will in time if you sincerely pray, + Lessen your troubles each succeeding day: + It's thro' our Saviour's aid that we should crave, + A gracious pardon ere we meet the grave; + His intercession with the king of Kings, + Alone can save you from eternal stings. + When at the court for trial you appear, + Speak nought but truth you better for it fare; + For should you dare to introduce a lie, + Justice's sharp eye each falsehood will descry: + The guilty felon, of his crime is clear: + Dismay'd confus'd, he feels alas! too late, + Such impious conduct greatly aggravate; + Besides he answers at the awful day, + For causing others from the truth to stray. + Whatever happens in this vale of tears, + Our Maker knows, give him your fervent prayers: + Let your demeanor if in prison be, + Such as the jailor can contrition see; + For his report may mitigate your doom, + And sometimes save you from a prison's gloom. + Religious books if you can read attend, + They are in solitude the pris'ner's friend; + When at the Chapel, do not cast away, + By inattention what the Chaplain say: + It's pure Religion cheers each good man's heart, + And will in time its blessings soon impart; + Such as perhaps you never knew before, + And doubtless will your peace of mind restore. + The Bible read, when in your dismal cell, + Read it attentive ere you bid farewell; + To him who may companion with you be; + Your soul that night may be required of thee. + A scene I witnessed, and not long time since, + Would stop the errors of an hardened prince; + Three men were sentenc'd by the law to die, + To hear them mourn, to see the drooping eye; + Would cause sensations of a painful kind, + While anxious cares corode the tortur'd mind. + A pious Chaplain strove to bring in view, + The proferr'd pardon if repentants true. + He said that God was merciful and just, + To implore forgiveness on his word to trust; + There is a record where the scripture say, + Those that repent he will not cast away; + A sigh or tear can not that boon impart, + It must be fervent from the head and heart: + Thro' Jesus' aid vile sinners doth he save, + If true repentants ere they meet the grave. + Each wish'd they could recal the time that's past, + And they would live as if each day the last: + Just before death they pray'd me to implore, + An erring mortal to transgress no more; + Hope their lov'd Chaplain might, for ever be + When call'd on high blessed to eternity; + They knew his worth his heart is of a kind, + That plants soft pity to a feeling mind: + Deeker, as Chaplain, few can e'er excel, + Belov'd by all who bids the jail farewell. + When first I saw those wretched men in jail, + Before their trial, did their fate bewail; + Soon as the sentence met each anxious ear, + Resign'd and true repentants did appear; + One and all cried out, oh that God how just! + To stop our sad career, on thee we'll trust; + One cause alone have made this sore distress, + Neglecting lord's day and our drunkenness. + + * * * * * + + + + +_Ode to the Memory of the late lamented_ +SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY + + + Well may Britons waft the sigh, + Since Romilly's no more; + Till our existance from us fly, + We shall his loss deplore. + + Oh! death thy keen unwelcome dart, + Caus'd Briton's tears to flow; + 'Twas you compell'd him to depart, + And gave the deadly blow. + + His virtues we shall long retain, + They are planted in each breast; + Till death they will with us remain, + By all he was carest. + + I oft have heard his accents sweet, + Flow graceful from his tongue. + Applause would all his efforts greet, + For music on them hung. + + His reasoning powers none could excel, + For truth appeared in view; + As _orator_ he spoke so well, + It oft compassion drew. + + The callous heart could not refrain + To shed soft Pity's tear; + He spoke in such pathetic strain, + As caused the falling tear. + + He set the injured captive free, + Oppression wou'd subdue; + A zealous friend to liberty, + And Briton's knew it true. + + Whene'er his duty would allow, + He'd seek domestic joy; + To stern afflictions forc'd to bow, + And that all peace destroy. + + His loss, we ever shall deplore, + And may his spirit rest + With virtuous souls long call'd before, + And numbered with the blest. + + Yet ere his spirit fled away, + God summoned her above, + Who passed with him each happy day, + And gave him love for love. + + Oh may his offspring never feel, + Those pangs he did endure; + No friendly aid the wound could heal, + Nor medicine health procure. + + May our redeemer pardon gain, + For him and for us all; + Soon as we cease from earthly pain, + Or God our spirits call. + + [Picture: Decorative divider] + + Walker, Printer, near the Duke's Palace, Norwich. + + + + +AN ADDRESS +TO THE +NORFOLK YEOMAN +ON THE +_Importation of_ +FOREIGN GRAIN. + + + BY J. PARKERSON, JUN + + On Foreign grain a duty lay, + Good Ministers I pray I pray, + If you our humble suit decline, + How can we meet and take our wine; + Chat about prices at Mark Lane, + To drink a bottle an't' prophane; + Did Mr. Pitt one night decline, + To call to aid the generous wine. + C---s cannot at times keep sober, + If they are tempted by October; + Sometimes a R---t---r takes a glass + Of spirits with a pretty lass; + Another thing I can define, + A B---p may get drunk with wine; + If it is placed within his view, + He acts as other people do; + Like us sometimes is prone to sin, + When Satan is alive within; + Sometimes successful he may be, + With B---s Sir as well as we; + And oft it does my feelings shock, + To see how dizzy is their flock; + So hard will they horses ride, + As if it was their daily pride. + Themselves and order to disgrace, + By being at a Foxes chase; + To see a cock fight won't decline, + A country P---n tho' divine; + But oh! upon a sabbath day, + How grave they look how much they pray. + Perhaps for sinners in this life, + Or to chat with neighbours wife. + A P---n in a country place, + Not long ago incur'd disgrace, + A neighbour went a dame to see, + A merry one as well could be; + A cock'd hat laid upon a chair, + This Sir is true I do declare; + She call'd, she knock'd, no answer made, + Upstairs she went without perade; + The P---n quick the curtains drew, + To keep the stranger from his view; + The neighbour said I make thus free, + As you invited me to tea; + But as you have a stranger here, + I do intrude I greatly fear. + I oft have heard the people say, + She took the P---n's hat away; + But ere she reached her happy home, + The P---n to her quick did roam, + Says he good woman that's my hat! + You know not what you have been at; + Give it me and never say, + What you have witness'd and I'll pay + You well to let the matter rest, + Within your own untroubled breast + No no, says she this hat I'll give, + Your wife as I do hope to live; + And tell her where I found it laid, + My trouble will be well repaid; + So R---d Sir to you adieu, + Your conduct I'll expose to view. + I'll speak of foreign grain again, + Hope your attention to detain; + Let Ministers a duty lay, + And make the foreign farmer pay + A certain sum on all he send, + Of grain into this fertile land. + Corn Laws are needless I protest, + To be without them would be best; + When crops are thin then grain would sell, + No doubt in Mark Lane very well: + At such a year then foreign grain, + Would flock into our ports again; + Soon an 'twas found enough was sent, + To answer every good intent, + A privy 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, + And gain the means from a D--e; + If they have money for to spare, + They'll will bestow it on the fair + The Cambridge ladies know it well, + I only do the truth now tell; + I've known a footman gain a place, + To save a C---e from disgrace; + He gains a calf as well as cow, + To manage matters they know how; + Poor Tom don't mind if he can find, + The P---n have a generous mind; + They always should to business stick, + Correct their flock read to the sick; + Too oft they do that task delay, + They are the first to go astray. + They ne'er should be a M---g---e, + It makes the people oft them hate; + From them no milk of kindness flow, + It's seldom mercy they will show. + Too oft they do to prison send, + A man his future life to mend; + He learns in such a place to be, + A hardened villian you may see. + Soon as his liberty he gain, + From acts of tumult wont abstain; + From every virtue he's bereft, + By company he's lately kept; + Small faults it's better to look o'er, + And tell them for to sin no more: + A bridewell often inmates have, + Who do for others riches crave: + In the same cell a boy is placed, + That have incur'd some slight disgrace; + Often he's placed with such a man + As teach him mischief all he can. + The boy goes out well versed in art, + That his late inmates did impart; + As soon as he his freedom gain, + Do that which causeth grief and pain; + Grown more familiar to a plan, + Of robbing others all he can. + And whilst in prison he was taught, + To tell a lie to screen a fault; + His brother prisoners did him teach, + To crib all trifles in his reach; + Too oft he's led by poachers where + To fang a bird or catch a hare: + And by advice he choose a spot + Where rambling Keepers see him not. + Poachers I think are less to blame + Then those that often buy the game. + There is a God that dwells on high, + Who will all mortals faults descry; + Should he no mercy to them show, + And send the men of prayers below, + Where Satan dwells and where he reigns, + To plant on sinners chains and pains; + With man let mercy constant rest, + For ever in the mind and breast. + Mercy I fear they never knew, + Or if they did it from them flew; + For virtue only can be found, + Where hearts are good minds are sound; + Humanity few e'er possess'd, + They cannot keep it in their breast. + No, arrogance and pride there dwell, + The poor around all know it well; + Seldom will ope a gaudy door, + To give a penny to the poor: + Yet glad would do it any day, + To turn the applicant away; + Or else to prison send the man, + And gladly punish all they can. + All fain would be a Demi God, + To hold the sharp chastising rod; + Esteem'd by few, by none revered, + And by the poor man greatly feared; + No longer I'll this theme pursue, + But bid the haughty Sirs, adieu. + A good divine shall be my theme, + The villiage did him much esteem; + A poor distress'd Italian youth, + Whose features bore the marks of truth; + Call'd at the parson's door to say, + The night was dark he'd lost his way; + The good divine observed the lad + Was sorrowful and thinly clad, + "Step in" says he and shut the door, + "Sometimes I feed the needy poor. + Your outward guarb bespeaks distress, + This night I'll make your troubles less." + The youth with gratitude replied, + To earn my living is my pride; + Pictures I sell and glasses too, + Much cheaper then you'll find a jew; + And soon most pleasing to his eye, + Was ushered a good mutton pie; + And further to afford relief, + Beside the pye a piece of beef; + And likewise quick his heart to cheer, + Between the two a pint of beer. + All night he staid the morning came, + The Parson asked the boy his name; + My name is luckless he replies, + Tears were streaming from his eyes; + Pray do you like this wandering life, + No says the lad it causeth strife. + A joiners business sir I crave, + From selling pictures could I save + Enough, I'd soon a master find, + And to him myself I'd bind. + The Parson soon a master found, + Cloathed the youth and gave ten pound. + He served his time so well 'tis said, + As soon his charity repaid. + He gained a living by his trade, + The Parson gave without parade. + And at the Reverend's death 'twas found, + He left his boy five hundred pound, + He call'd the boy tho' grown a man, + Excel this action if you can. + + [Picture: Decorative divider] + + Printed by R. Walker, Norwich. + + + + +A Description of the Pine-apple at Trowse. + + + Both beauty and art have exerted their skill, + You will find on a spot near the brow of a hill; + The hill is near Norwich and call'd Bracondale, + I stept into Vince's myself to regale. + The landlord I found Sir adopted one plan, + To please all his customers all that he can; + Some Topsmen I found had come to the spot, + To look at their darlings, each good hardy Scot; + When business was o'er they did not decline, + To take a few bottles of Vince's port wine; + The flavour was such they could not refrain, + To fill up a bumper again and again. + I found these good fellows are men of sense, + That to learning and knowledge may lay a pretence; + Most of these gentlemen always can find, + A stranger's good converse to cherish the mind. + When they went away, in the garden, I stray'd, + And do not repent there a visit I paid, + There was pinks, there was roses, and cucumbers too, + And peas of the finest I ever did view: + The evergreens pleas'd me their odour was sweet, + And a thousand of other sweet shrubs did I meet, + But oh what sweet pleasures your mind to fulfil. + Is the view that you have on the top of the hill. + The river delighteth the mind and the eye + On which you see wherries constant pass by, + Besides there is barges that proudly do ride, + With packets to Yarmouth assisted by tide; + There's low-lands and up-lands that gladden the sight, + And a thousand sweet objects the mind to delight + And such view of the city as must please the eye, + A thousand old buildings you there may descry; + Oh this is a garden I said to myself, + That was I a man that had plenty of wealth, + I would ramble to daily, myself to regale, + For Vince I well know have some fine flavour'd ale; + And those that have tasted his porter declare, + That two or three glasses the spirits will cheer; + Here's Jamaca Rum that will gladden the heart + The flavour of which will much pleasure impart; + His Hollands you'd find would soon make you merry, + And your cheeks my good Sir look as red as a cherry; + But oh for his Brandy put that in a bowl, + With his very strong Rum & 'twould soon cheer the soul. + His best English Gin will banish all care, + If you take but enough I vow and declare; + He keeps Cows to afford you a little good stuff, + If you only will add to it Rum quite enough; + Besides with your Hautboys he will find you cream + Now do not suppose that this is a dream; + Step into Vince's and you'll find it true, + That what I have stated may be found by you; + For your steed or you poney there's a stable I say, + That is kept clean and neat with the finest of hay. + And his friends from the north who do bullocks sell, + Know that he lodges their cattle quite well; + He has all the means to keep them clean & warm, + And shelter those creatures from rain & from storm + There's plenty of acres to give them full scope, + And plenty of feed if their mouths they will ope; + Their bellies they may most rapidly fill, + To give them a plenty I know is his will; + I have oft heard him say that he great pleasure take, + In providing for stock for each owner's sake, + And that he determines no pains he would spare, + To take care of cattle that's under his care; + Indeed I believe that all his friends find, + To afford satisfaction he's always inclin'd; + And all those that think proper at his house to stray, + Shall never have cause to complain when away: + He thanks all his friends for each favour that's past, + And hopes that each visit will not be the last; + His efforts to please them he'll strongly renew, + And each friend that call shall soon find it true; + Most fully determined such liquor to sell, + As all shall declare that they like it quite well; + I believe that in summer no spot is more fit, + To brace up the nerves to those that need it. + The air is so fine that it cherish the frame, + Besides there's another great pleasure I'll name, + But a very short mile and the journey is o'er, + Ere they can walk in at the Pine-apple door; + I mean for those friends who for pleasure do stray + That near is the distance as I have heard say, + I'm sure that no one will have cause to repine, + At the distance from Norwich when wheather is fine, + The garden produces such store sir in May, + As induce you to take some on going away; + Cucumbers and other things there you may buy, + So early I'm told as delighteth the eye, + To do it no pains nor expences he spare, + That Vince's good friends may have something that's rare; + Another thing early the Ladies to please, + He grows in the garden the sweetest of peas, + And if in the spring there are nice cooling showers, + The same time will send them the choisest of flowers, + The garden most people from Norwich invite, + As that is his pride and daily delight; + There are seats and good harbours your time to invite, + When smoaking your pipe to afford you delight, + The house tho' not gaudy is always kept clean, + Or at least I do say as mostly is seen; + He keeps lively fires in winter I'm told, + To keep his good friends when there catching cold, + And oh his tobacco most people approve, + It handles you'll find quite as soft as a dove; + His pipes are glaz'd high you will find at the end, + Such as you'd wish to bestow on a friend. + Indeed in the mansion no pains will he spare, + To gain him applause or your spirits to cheer; + He's grateful to all both rich and poor, + That choose to step in at the Pine-apple door. + He wish all to spend no more than they please, + To joke, drink, and laugh, & be merry at ease, + Harmonious parties he likes for to see, + That delight in good friendship and sing a good glee, + A song now and then will enliven the heart, + And make us unwilling till late to depart. + + + + +THE WIVERTON BOY; +_Or_, _Sailor Returned_. + + + On Wiverton Green a boy was found, + Weeping his fate upon the ground; + Compassion soon the helpless drew, + To give him aid they instant flew; + The overseer quick took the youth, + Matured him in the paths of truth; + At proper age they sought to find, + What calling suited best his mind; + Upon the main he wished to try, + His fortune and his destiny. + Quick to a merchant ship was sent, + He braved the stormy eliment; + Intrepid courage gave him aid, + And due attention well he paid, + To every order that he heard, + And by the crew was much revered; + At riper years became a mate, + In the same ship he tried his fate; + His master died he took his place, + His tutor he did not disgrace, + He soon became a man of wealth, + Adorned with riches, strength, and health. + Tired of the sea he came on shore, + His Wiverton friends to see once more. + Each hailed the happy pleasing day, + They view'd the orphan nam'd Greenway. + The tear of sorrow from him flew, + When he the fatal spot did view; + Says he this village fostered me, + Till I embarked upon the sea. + Part of my earnings will I give, + That poorer souls may better live; + He bought the Briston tithes to do + A generous act outdone by few; + And soon as bought gave them away, + To those that named him young Greenway. + In trust to aid the needy poor, + Who will till death his name adore. + Owing to times it will be found, + These tithes have fetched three hundred pound; + And Wiverton poor have every year, + A sum that keeps them from despair; + And oft they cry we bless the day, + That brought to us our good Greenway. + + Knighted Sir Richard Greenway. + + FINIS. + +{1} The composition of this eText follows the ordering of the original +in Norwich Millennium Library, England. 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