The Dominion of the Sword.
69
This Sword it prevails, too,
So highly in Wales, too,
Shenkin ap Powel swears
“Cots-plutterer nails, too.”
So highly in Wales, too,
Shenkin ap Powel swears
“Cots-plutterer nails, too.”
In Scotland this faster
Did make such disaster,
That they sent their money back
For which they sold their master.
Did make such disaster,
That they sent their money back
For which they sold their master.
It batter’d their Gunkirk,
And so it did their Spainkirk,
That he is fled, and swears the devil
Is in Dunkirk.
And so it did their Spainkirk,
That he is fled, and swears the devil
Is in Dunkirk.
He that can tower,
Or he that is lower,
Would be judg’d a fool to put
Away his power.
Or he that is lower,
Would be judg’d a fool to put
Away his power.
Take books and rent ’em,
Who can invent ’um,
When that the sword replies,
Negatur argumentum.
Who can invent ’um,
When that the sword replies,
Negatur argumentum.
Your brave college-butlers,
Must stoop to the sutlers;
There’s ne’er a library
Like to the cutlers’.
Must stoop to the sutlers;
There’s ne’er a library
Like to the cutlers’.
The blood that was spilt, sir,
Hath gain’d all the gilt, sir;
Thus have you seen me run my
Sword up to the hilt, sir.
Hath gain’d all the gilt, sir;
Thus have you seen me run my
Sword up to the hilt, sir.
