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    Sketches in Verse respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
    Sketches in Verse respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
    Sketches in Verse respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
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    Sketches in Verse respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry

    By James Parkerson

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sketches in Verse respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry - James Parkerson

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      Title: Sketches in Verse

      respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry

      Author: James Parkerson

      Release Date: September 15, 2010 [eBook #33732]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES IN VERSE***

      Transcribed from the early 1800’s Walker edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

      PRICE 2s.

      SKETCHES

      IN VERSE;

      Respectfully Addressed

      to the

      NORFOLK YEOMENRY,

      by j. parkerson, jun.

      VIZ.

      On Foreign Grain.  The Corn Mart.  On Mr. L. the Unhappy Convict.  The Pine Apple.  On the late Sir Samuel Rommilly.  The Wiverton Boy, &c.

      Walker, Printer, near the Duke’s Palace, Norwich

      THE NORWICH

      CORN MART. [1]

      By J. Parkerson, Junr.

      At one o’clock the busy seen begin,

      Quick to the hall they all are posting in;

      The cautious merchant takes his stand,

      The farmer shows the product of his land:

      If wheat the merchant says it’s damp or cold,

      If Dawling Market, that’s the case I’m told.

      If it is barley he’ll your mind unhinge,

      And say good Sir it has a gloomy dinge;

      Reduce three shillings of the currant price,

      And with the farmer he’ll be very nice;

      If oats you offer he’ll bid very low,

      Say they are light the moment you them show;

      If beans then say this sample’s very soft,

      And in his purchase he will keep aloft;

      Show him a sample of good Brank or Rye,

      He’ll bid you low and look extremely shy:

      This is the case if Mark Lane’s very dull,

      And all his granaries are very full.

      Yet if the market keep upon the rise,

      Tho’ bad your sample that he’ll not despise,

      Purchase as much as he can gain that day,

      Or from his net proceeds afford to pay;

      ’Tant always markets make a merchant dull,

      It is the banker on him has a pull;

      That often gives despair or cause a gloom,

      He fears an order to the sweating room.

      I’ve known that happen on a market day,

      Then from the mart he’s forc’d to keep away,

      Sometimes G. R. locks up the malt house door,

      From an extent and makes him sad and poor;

      A country house and a new fashioned gig,

      He keeps to make him look at markets big;

      Soon as demands upon him loudly call,

      He say to day I shant attend the hall:

      The clerk announce his master is unwell,

      Yet purchase all you are inclined to sell;

      And when for payment you may on him call,

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