The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift Author:Jonathan Swift, John Mitford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: W. Pickering Subjects: English poetry History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white ... more »OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We'll doctrines teach the times to serve, And more five thousand pounds deserve, By future good behaviour. Now take our harp into your hand, The joyful strings, at your command, ' In doleful sounds no more shall mourn. We, with sincerity of heart, To all your tunes shall bear a part, Unless we see the tables turn. If so, great sir, you will excuse us, For we and our attending Muses May live to change our strain ; And turn, with merry hearts, our tune, Upon some happy tenth of June, To " the king enjoys his own again." AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG,1 ON A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET. l720. To the tune of " Packington's Pound." Brocades, and damasks, and tabbies, and gauzes, Are, by Robert Ballantine, lately brought over, With forty things more: nowhearwhat the lawsays, Whoe'er will not wear them is not the king's lover. 1 This ballad alludes to the Dean's " Proposal for the use of Irish Manufactures," for which Waters, the printer, was prosecuted with great violence. Lord Chief-Justice Whit- shed sent the jury repeatedly out of court, until he had wearied them into a special verdict. -- Scott. Though a printer and Dean, Seditiously mean, Our true Irish hearts from Old England to wean, We'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters, In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters. In England the dead in woollen are clad, The Dean and his ...« less