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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Defence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not guilty, yer Honers! I talks to yer straight!<br>An' I calls it a pretty crook game <br>An' an 'og of a thing, if the coppers should bring<br>Such dishonor as this on me name <br>On me name that 'as stood fer up'oldin' the good!<br>It's enough to make any bloke weep!<br>An' the goods as they says I received - spare me days!<br>Don't I tell yer I bought 'em dirt cheap!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yes, I bought 'em dirt cheap; an' I says to the Bench,<br>As a man 'oo acts honest an' square,<br>That me solid defence is poun's, shillin's an' pence,<br>An' I arsts yer to deal with me fair.<br>Fer it's more than a joke when a square-livin' bloke<br>Is 'ad up fer committin' a crime;<br>Fer the JOHN, 'ere, 'e swears to the goods, an' declares<br>As I knoo they was pinched at the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But, gentlemen, listen, I bought 'em dirt cheap!<br>As the bloke 'ere, who sold 'em kin swear.<br>But they say 'e was crook, an' the goods that 'e took<br>Wasn't got, so to speak, on the square.<br>Well, per'aps that's all true, an' they ses that I knoo<br>They wus pinched when I made 'im the bid.<br>It 'ud be a fair sin fer to miss that chuck in;<br>So I arsts: Wot's the odds if I did?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Ere's the Cop ses I'm charged with receivin' the goods,<br>As I bloomin' well knoo to be stole;<br>But then that isn't stealin' meself, an' I feel<br>As I orn't to be in this 'ole.<br>Fer I never stole things in me life, an' I brings<br>Twenty witnesses 'ere fer to say<br>That in all er me days I 'ave allus earned praise<br>Fer up'oldin' the straight, honest way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yus, I allus 'ave preached that to steal wus a sin,<br>An' I never pinched things in me life;<br>An' I brings up me kids as strict honesty bids,<br>An' I gotter respectable wife.<br>I am known in our street as a man 'ard to beat<br>At comdemnin' all thievin' an' crime;<br>An' there's clergymen 'ere as is ready to clear<br>Up me character every time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So, yer Honers, I arsts to be cleared o' the charge;<br>An' I think yet should say, at the time,<br>Me respectable name is quite free frum all blame<br>In connection with thievin' an' crime.<br>Fer me great repitation's at stake, in a way;<br>It's a thing as I'm anxious ter keep;<br>Fer I never been once in the - Wot's that?<br>SIX MUNCE!<br>But, yer Honers, I got them things cheap!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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An' I calls it a pretty crook game 
An' an 'og of a thing, if the coppers should bring
Such dishonor as this on me name 
On me name that 'as stood fer up'oldin' the good!
It's enough to make any blo..."></div>
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