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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Magna Carta</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell of the Magna Charter<br>As were signed at the Barons' command <br>On Runningmead Island in t' middle of t' Thames <br>By King John, as were known as &quot;Lack Land.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say it were wrong of the Barons <br>Their will on the King so to thrust, <br>But you'll see if you look at both sides of the case <br>That they had to do something, or bust. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For John, from the moment they crowned him, <br>Started acting so cunning and sly, <br>Being King, of course, he couldn't do wrong, <br>But, by gum, he'd a proper good try. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He squandered the ratepayers' money, <br>All their cattle and corn did he take, <br>'Til there wasn't a morsel of bread in the land, <br>And folk had to manage on cake. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way he behaved to young Arthur <br>Went to show as his feelings was bad; <br>He tried to get Hubert to poke out his eyes, <br>Which is no way to treat a young lad. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It were all right him being a tyrant <br>To vassals and folks of that class, <br>But he tried on his tricks with the Barons an' all, <br>And that's where he made a 'faux pas'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He started bombarding their castles, <br>And burning them over their head, <br>'Til there wasn't enough castles left to go round, <br>And they had to sleep six in a bed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they went to the King in a body, <br>And their spokesman, Fitzwalter by name, <br>He opened the 'ole in his 'elmet and said, <br>Conciliatory like, &quot; What's the game?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The King starts to shilly and shally, <br>He sits and he haws and he hums, <br>'Til the Barons in rage started gnashing their teeth, <br>And them with no teeth gnashed their gums </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Fitz, through the 'ole in his 'elmet, <br>&quot;It was you as put us in this plight.&quot; <br>And the King having nothing to say to this, murmured <br>&quot;Leave your address and I'll write&quot;.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This angered the gallant Fitzwalter;<br>He stamped on the floor with his foot, <br>And were starting to give John a rare ticking off, <br>When the 'ole in his 'elmet fell shut. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We'll get him a Magna Charter,&quot;<br>Said Fitz when his face he had freed; <br>Said the Barons &quot;That's right and if one's not enough, <br>Get a couple and happen they'll breed.'' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they set about making a Charter, <br>When at finish they'd got it drawn up, <br>It looked like a paper on cattle disease, <br>Or the entries for t' Waterloo Cup. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next day, King John, all unsuspecting, <br>And having the afternoon free,<br>To Runningmead Island had taken a boat, <br>And were having some shrimps for his tea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd just pulled the 'ead off a big 'un, <br>And were pinching its tail with his thumb, <br>When up came a barge load of Barons, who said, <br>&quot;We thought you'd be here so we've come&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they told him they'd brought Magna Charter, <br>The King seemed to go kind of limp, <br>But minding his manners he took off his hat <br>And said &quot; Thanks very much, have a shrimp.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot; You'd best sign at once,&quot; said Fitzwalter, <br>&quot; If you don't, I'll tell thee for a start<br>The next coronation will happen quite soon, <br>And you won't be there to take part.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they spread Charter out on t' tea table, <br>And John signed his name like a lamb, <br>His writing in places was sticky and thick <br>Through dipping his pen in the jam. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it's through that there Magna Charter, <br>As were signed by the Barons of old, <br>That in England to-day we can do what we like, <br>So long as we do what we're told.</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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As were signed at the Barons' command 
On Runningmead Island in t' middle of t' Thames 
By King John, as were known as &quot;Lack Land.&quot; 

Some say it were wrong of the Barons 
Their will on the King so to thrus..."></div>
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