Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 293

Transcript

Canterberry Jingles

Yer have done werry neatly the trick

With yer gab and yer promises free

Yer be fixed for a time at Port Nic,

With a pretty good skrew, W.P.

Go on! Yer was long time at schools

And most shining yer was at the Kollege,

My word! Yer have stuffed ‘em – the fools!

With yer pimple so stuck full of nolledge.

“Master R—is the one man has schooling”

It’s true! Cos yer own paper have said it,

I thought him as told me was fooling,

So I sported a copper and read it.

Wen ‘em schooled yer up ever so clever

And stuffed yer for week after week,

Em didn’t forget – s’help me never –

To fill yer full up with hard cheek.

No! John darn’t have parsed yer, my pippin!

And John warn’t of that there a dreaming,

For John knowed in print he’d get whipping

And John knowed at him yer’d be screaming.

He’ve only got one paper to dare ‘em

And John’s horgan it ain’t a wonder

So, says John, it’s best for to square ‘em –

Cos why? Why John knowed he’d get thunder.

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