<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457233" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wandering Pilgrim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will Piggot must to Coxwould go, <br>To live, alas! in want,<br>Unless Sir Thomas say, No, no, <br>Th' allowance is too scant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gracious knight full well does weet<br>Ten farthings ne'er will do<br>To keep a man each day in meat;<br>Some bread to meat is due.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Rechabite poor Will must live,<br>And drink of Adam's ale; <br>Pure element no life can give,<br>Or mortal soul regale. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spare diet and spring-water clear<br>Physicians hold are good:<br>Who diets thus need never fear<br>A fever in the blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gramercy, Sirs, ye're in the right;<br>Prescriptions all can sell,<br>But he that does not eat can't sh*<br>Or piss if good drink fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But pass - The AEsculapian crew,<br>Who eat and quaff the best,<br>They seldom miss to bake and brew,<br>Or lin to break their fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could Yorkshire tyke but do the same,<br>Then he like them might thrive;<br>But Fortune, Fortune, cruel Dame, <br>To starve thou dost him drive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Will's old master's plenteous days<br>His memory e'er be bless'd,<br>What need of speaking in his praise?<br>His goodness stands confess'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At his famed gate stood Charity<br>In lovely sweet array;<br>Ceres and Hospitality<br>Dwelt there both night and day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to conclude, and be concise,<br>Truth must Will's voucher be;<br>Truth never yet went in disguise,<br>For naked still is she.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is but one, but one alone,<br>Can set the pilgrim free,<br>And make him cease to pine and moan<br>O Frankland, it is thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! save him from a dreary way;<br>To Coxwould he must hie,<br>Bereft of thee he wends astray,<br>At Coxwould he must die. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! let him in thy hall but stand,<br>And wear a porter's gown,<br>Duteous to what thou may'st command,<br>Thus William's wishes crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</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=457233" data-title="The Wandering Pilgrim de Matthew Prior" data-description="Will Piggot must to Coxwould go, To live, alas! in want, Unless Sir Thomas say, No, no, Th' allowance is too scant. The gracious knight full well does weet Ten farthings ne'er will do To keep a man each day in meat; Some bread to meat is due. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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