"TALES", by GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832) {1}




TALE I.



THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.

With fair round belly, with good capon lined,
With eyes severe -
Full of wise saws and modern instances.
SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It.

Deep shame hath struck me dumb.
King John.

He gives the bastinado with his tongue;
Our ears are cudgell'd.
King John.

. . . . . . . Let's kill all the lawyers;
Now show yourselves men; 'tis for liberty:
We will not leave one lord or gentleman.
2 Henry VI.

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night.