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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510942" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Coiner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be sung by the unlearned to the tune of &quot;King John and the Abbot of Canterbury,&quot; and by the learned to &quot;Tempest-a-brewing.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Aga inst the Bermudas we foundered, whereby<br>This Master, that Swabber, yon Bo'sun, and I<br>(Our pinnace and crew being drowned in the main)<br>Must beg for our bread through old England again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a bite and a sup, and a bed of clean straw,<br>We'll tell you such marvels as man never saw,<br>On a Magical Island which no one did spy<br>Save this Master, that Swabber, yon Bo'sun, and I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seven months among Mermaids and Devils and Sprites,<br>And Voices that howl in the cedars o'nights,<br>With further enchantments we underwent there.<br>Good Sirs, 'tis a tale to draw guts from a bear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twixt Dover and Southwark it paid us our way,<br>Where we found some poor players were labouring a play;<br>And, willing to search what such business might be,<br>We entered the yard, both to hear and to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One hailed us for seamen and courteous-ly<br>Did guide us apart to a tavern near by<br>Where we told him our tale (as to many of late),<br>And he gave us good cheer, so we gave him good weight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mulled sack and strong waters on bellies well lined<br>With beef and black pudding do strengthen the mind;<br>And seeing him greedy for marvels, at last<br>From plain salted truth to flat leasing we passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he, when on midnight our reckoning he paid,<br>Says, &quot;Never match coins with a Coiner by trade,<br>Or he'll turn your lead pieces to metal as rare<br>As shall fill him this globe, and leave something to spare....&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We slept where they laid us, and when we awoke<br>Was a crown or five shillings in every man's poke.<br>We bit them and rang them, and, finding them good,<br>We drank to that Coiner as honest men should!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a cup and a crust, and a truss, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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