THE PARDON

The suit which humbly you have made
Is fully and maturely weigh’d;
  And as ’tis your petition,
I do forgive, for well I know,
Since you’re so bruised, another blow
  Would break the head of Priscian.

’Tis not my purpose or intent
That you should suffer banishment;
  I pardon, now you’ve courted;
And yet I fear this clemency
Will come too late to profit thee,
  For you’re with grief transported.

However, this I do command,
That you your birch do take in hand,
  Read concord and syntax on;
The bays, your own, are only mine,
Do you then still your nouns decline,
  Since you’ve declined Dan Jackson.

 

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