Windsor[1] and Bristow[1] then shall be
Joined together in the Low-countree[1]
Then shall the tall black Daventry Bird[2].
Speak against peace right many a word;
And some shall admire his conying wit,
For many good groats his tongue shall slit.
But, spight of the Harpy[3] that crawls on all four,
There shall be peace, pardie, and war no more.
But Englond must cry alack and well-a-day,
If the stick be taken from the dead sea.
And, dear Englond, if ought I understond,
Beware of Carrots[4] from Northumberlond.
Carrots sown Thynne[5] a deep root may get,
If so be they are in Somer set:
Their[6] Conyngs mark thou; for I have been told,
They assassine when young, and poison when old.
Root out these Carrots, O thou[7], whose name
Is backwards and forwards always the same;
And keep close to thee always that name,
Which backwards and forwards[8] is almost the same.
And, Englond, wouldst thou be happy still,
Bury those Carrots under a Hill[9].
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alluding to the deanery and bishoprick being possessed by the same person, then at Utrecht.
- ↑ Earl of Nottingham.
- ↑ Duke of Marlborough.
- ↑ The duchess of Somerset.
- ↑ Thomas Thynne of Longleate, esq. a gentleman of very great estate, married the above lady after the death of her first husband, Henry Cavendish earl of Ogle, only son to Henry duke of Newcastle, to whom she had been betrothed in her infancy.
- ↑ Count Koningsmark.
- ↑ ANNA.
- ↑ MASHAM.
- ↑ Lady Masham's maiden name was Hill.
