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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455433" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Canute the Great</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell of Canute, King of England,<br>A native of Denmark was he,<br>His hobbies was roving and raiding<br>And paddling his feet in the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By trade he were what's called a Viking,<br>Every summer he'd visit our shore,<br>Help himself to whatever he wanted,<br>And come back in the autumn for more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These trips always showed him a profit,<br>But what stumped him to know was this 'ere...<br>Where the English folk got all the money,<br>He came and took off them each year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After duly considering the matter,<br>He concluded as how his best course,<br>Were to have an invasion of England,<br>And tap the supply at its source.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He got other Vikings to join him,<br>With a promise of plunder and spoil,<br>And raked up atrocity stories,<br>To bring all their blood to the boil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They landed one morning at Weymouth,<br>And waited for fight to begin,<br>While their foe, Ethelred the Unready,<br>Found his army and got it fell in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the battle were done, Crown of England,<br>Changed heads, so the history book states,<br>From Ethelred's seven-and-a-quarter,<br>To King Canutes six-and-five-eights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vikings was cheered as the winners,<br>Ethelred, he went somewhere and died,<br>And Canute, to his lasting atonement...<br>Made the widow, Queen Emma, his bride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She started to teach him his manners,<br>To drink without wetting his nose,<br>Put his hand to his mouth and say &quot;Pardon!&quot;,<br>Every time the occasion arose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said his companions was vulgar,<br>His habits more easy than free,<br>Made him promise no more to disgrace her,<br>By paddling his feet in the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the time this 'ere promise meant nothing,<br>It were made in the cool of the spring,<br>But when summer came in with a heat wave,<br>T' were a totally different thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He moved his court down to the seaside,<br>Where they took off their shoes and their socks,<br>And rushed to the water and left him,<br>Alone on his throne on the rocks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said one, &quot;Come on King, have a paddle,<br>I'll look after your sceptre and crown.&quot;<br>He replied, &quot;Nay, I promised the missus,<br>And I can't let the old... lady down.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;No need to do that,&quot; said the Tempter,<br>&quot;The tide's coming in, as you see;<br>You promised you wouldn't go to it,<br>But you can't stop it coming to thee!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that's how it happened... that later,<br>When Emma came over the sands,<br>She found Canute knee deep in water,<br>Trying to shush the sea back with his hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For not letting on that he'd seen her,<br>He was chiding each wave as it came,<br>Saying, &quot;Thus far, my lad, and no further!&quot;<br>'Til Emma said, &quot;What is this game?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He replied, These 'ere flatterers told me,<br>That the sea would obey me, and so,<br>I'm giving them this demonstration,<br>To show what a fat lot they know.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You're doing quite right,&quot; shouted Emma,<br>&quot;It's time someone made them look small!&quot;<br>Then she took off her shoes and her stockings,<br>And started to paddle an' all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</a><div class=q>
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A native of Denmark was he,
His hobbies was roving and raiding
And paddling his feet in the sea. 

By trade he were what's called a Viking,
Every summer he'd visit our shore,
Help himself to whatever he wanted..."></div>
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