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502 MEN AND WOMEN
" John the Pannonian, groundedly believed
A blacksmith's bastard, whose hard hand reprieved
The Empire from its fate the year before,-
Came, had a mind to take the crown, and wore
The same for six years, (during which the Huns
Kept off their fingers from us) till his sons
Put something in his liquor "-and so forth.
Then a new reign. Stay-" Take at its just worth"
(Subjoins an annotator) " what I give
As hearsay. Some think John let Protus live
And slip away. 'Tis said, he reached man's age
At some blind northern court; made first a page
Then, tutor to the children-last, of use
About the hunting-stables. I deduce
He \vrote the little tract' On worming dogs,'
Whereof the name in sundry catalogues
Is extant yet. A Protus of the race
Is rumoured to have died a monk in Thrace,­
And if the same, he reached senility."
Here's John the Smith's rough-hammered head. Great
eye,
Gross jaw and griped lips do what granite can
To give you the crown-grasper. What a man I
LXXX
HOL Y-CROSS DAY
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL
CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME
'Vhat the Jews really said, on thus being driven to church,
was rather to this eflect :
1
FEE, faw, fum 1 bubble and squeak I
Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week.
Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough,
Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff,
Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime
Gives us the summons-'tis sermon-time.
2
Boh, here's Barnabas I Job, that's you '1
Up stumps Solomon-bustling too '1
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