Papurau Newydd Cymru

Chwiliwch 15 miliwn o erthyglau papurau newydd Cymru

Cuddio Rhestr Erthyglau

5 erthygl ar y dudalen hon

THE QUIZZICAL QUORUM.

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Rhannu

THE QUIZZICAL QUORUM. A BALLAD, ■y 'Selling forth how they stopped a poor man upon the King's highway, nd robbed him of the earnings offiftten days' hard labolr. 0 Fame, blow your trumpet,and-scatters. wreath, Oil each Magistrate's noddle that governs Black- heath; Let your trumpet he hollow, & crooked ez mean, Not one sprig of sage in your chaplets he seen. Derry down, down, down, derry down. Sins, sing, how these doughty and Reverend prigs, Raised a terrible dust, as they all shook their wigs, And loyalty made a sublime adjuration, To die—or deliver the Heath from invasion Derry down, &c. A truculent monster, a demon profane, Had haunted the Heath, and molested their reiga; "Whose infamous crime was the general talk, I or the villain was guilty of-taking a italk Derry down, &c. What! walk on the Common without a permit! ■Has the rascal no fear of the bottomless pit ? His breaking the Sabbath we need not discuss, Siuce your Worships will own he has not wor- shipp'd us. Derry down, &c. Then turning their eyes up, the Quorum devout ■Sign'd a warrant for seizing the wretch on his route; But, doubting their own magisterial nerve, They oiaufuliy left it to others to serve. Derry down, &c. The Caitiff was seiz'd, and was dragging to jail, When his fiieuds (0 the iusolent r-ebl-is !) cried Bail -But, on seeking the Quorum, the valourous elves Were all of them g0, out a walking themselves Derry down, &c. May your Worships Ioog live, the Pedestrian's f,- c s, To lay fo!ks by the heels for exerting their toes; And joiig may ye vent your magnanimous might, ■Upon walkers by dty, stead of-footpads by night. Derry down, &c. So God save the King, and be-devil the French, Aud from purists]and,prigs purge the Magistrates Belich; May our beef sell for fourpence a pound, as it ought, ,A rl the haif-quartern loaf be call'd dear at a groat. Derry down, down, down, derry down.

To the Editor of the Ji'orth…

CAPTAIN WRIGHT.

BONAPARTE ON HIS VOYAGE TO…

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