Rowton House Rhymes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rowton House Rhymes<br><br>Apologia Pro Suis Carminibus.<br><br>O what a royal thing is Reticence!<br>And Silence, O how god-like splendid! Yet,<br>We that are singers, and have need of pence<br>To buy our babies bread, why should we let<br>Aught of the god or king our tongues up-tie<br>If men will toss us coppers for the song,<br>And Goldilocks and Dimplechin to die<br>Forbear Sure, Silence, then, were hellish wrong.<br><br>So to the market-place! If the crowd pay,<br>Bread's won, and Bread's an honourable cause.<br>And what care I if some sad critic say:<br>"Another heart for pecking of the daws!"<br>Let the daws peck! But let them pay - sesterce,<br>Sovereign, or cent! All that is grist is good ...<br>Shall I be less to mine than is to hers<br>The pelican that gives her breast for food <br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.