A BUNDLE OF EPIGRAMS.
“ More matte. for u May morning.' I — Twelfth Night. 1. For Freedom’s sake all patriots once Would gladly shed their blood : For Freedom’s sake our patriots now Will only shed their—mud. 2. How soon the Faction shifts its praise, Those toadies quicker change than toads; Just now they swore by Fiddlestone, But now they’re all for dirty Roads. 3. O Fiddlestohe I do look behind, Your cherish’d member’s getting hurt; Even in a patriot 'tis not kind To drag his poor tail in the dirt. 4. If settlers are to choose the men, Just let them choose them, if you please; They’ll vote for men who’ll do their work, And not the doctor’s nominees. 5. A despot’s what you wish to be, But I, for one, don’t fancy ye ; New Zealand is not Paraguay, And Fiddlestone’s not Francia. 6. The tactics of our first-rate men This little couplet well explains: You’ve dirty ways from factious knaves, And muddy streets from muddy brains, 7. Hot water so pleases these fools, That I hope they may 7 spend all their years in it; And the Doctor’s so fond of the mud, That I wish he was head over ears in it.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 640, 20 September 1851, Page 3
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203A BUNDLE OF EPIGRAMS. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 640, 20 September 1851, Page 3
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