<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416945" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Winchester races</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Winchester races first took their beginning<br>It is said the good people forgot their old Saint<br>Not applying at all for the leave of Saint Swithin<br>And that William of Wykeham's approval was faint. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The races however were fixed and determined<br>The company came and the Weather was charming<br>The Lords and the Ladies were satine'd and ermined<br>And nobody saw any future alarming.-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the old Saint was informed of these doings<br>He made but one Spring from his Shrine to the Roof<br>Of the Palace which now lies so sadly in ruins<br>And then he addressed them all standing aloof. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh! subjects rebellious! Oh Venta depraved<br>When once we are buried you think we are gone<br>But behold me immortal! By vice you're enslaved<br>You have sinned and must suffer, ten farther he said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These races and revels and dissolute measures<br>With which you're debasing a neighboring Plain<br>Let them stand--You shall meet with your curse in your pleasures<br>Set off for your course, I'll pursue with my rain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye cannot but know my command o'er July<br>Henceforward I'll triumph in shewing my powers<br>Shift your race as you will it shall never be dry<br>The curse upon Venta is July in showers--'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jane+Austen">Jane Austen</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=416945" data-title="When Winchester races de Jane Austen" data-description="When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at all for the leave of Saint Swithin And that William of Wykeham's approval was faint. The races however were fixed and determined T..."></div> </div> </div>

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