<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Princes and Prelates</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Princes and Prelates and het-headed zealots<br> All Europe hae set in a lowe,<br> The poor man lies down, nor envies a crown,<br> And comforts himsel with a mowe.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And why shouldna poor folk mowe, mowe, mowe,<br> And why shouldna poor folk mowe:<br> The great folk hae siller, and houses and lands,<br> Poor bodies hae naething but mowe.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When Brunswick's great Prince cam a cruising to France<br> Republican billies to cowe,<br> Bauld Brunswick's great Prince wad hae shawn better sense<br> At hame with his Princess to mowe.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And why shouldna, &c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Out over the Rhine proud Prussia wad shine,<br> To spend his best blood he did vow;<br> But Frederic had better ne'er forded the water,<br> But spent as he docht in a mowe.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And why, &c.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> By sea and by shore! the Emperor swore,<br> In Paris he'd kick up a row;<br> But Paris saw ready just leugh at the laddie<br> And bad him gae tak a mowe.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And why, &c.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And Kate laid her claws on poor Stanislaus,<br> And Poland has bent like a bow:<br> May the deil in her arse ram a huge prick of brass!<br> And damn her in hell with a mowe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And why, &c.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But truce with commotions and new-fangled notions,<br> A bumper I trust you'll allow:<br> Here's George our gude king and Charlotte his queen,<br> And lang may they tak a gude mowe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116698" data-title="When Princes and Prelates de Robert Burns" data-description="When Princes and Prelates and het-headed zealots/ All Europe hae set in a lowe,/ The poor man lies down, nor envies a crown,/ And comforts himsel with a mowe.—/ And why shouldna poor folk mowe, mowe, mowe,/ And why shouldna poor folk mowe:/ T..."></div> </div> </div>

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