Sketches in Verse: respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
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Sketches in Verse - James Parkerson
James Parkerson
Sketches in Verse: respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Table of Contents
THE NORWICH CORN MART. [1]
On Mr. L---
the CONVICT’S Farewell, &c. &c. &c.
ADVICE, &c.
Ode to the Memory of the late lamented SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY
AN ADDRESS to the NORFOLK YEOMAN on the Importation of FOREIGN GRAIN.
A Description of the Pine-apple at Trowse.
THE WIVERTON BOY; Or , Sailor Returned .
THE NORWICH
CORN MART. [1]
Table of Contents
By J. Parkerson, Junr.
At one o’clock the busy seen begin,
Quick to the hall they all are posting in;
The cautious merchant takes his stand,
The farmer shows the product of his land:
If wheat the merchant says it’s damp or cold,
If Dawling Market, that’s the case I’m told.
If it is barley he’ll your mind unhinge,
And say good Sir it has a gloomy dinge;
Reduce three shillings of the currant price,
And with the farmer he’ll be very nice;
If oats you offer he’ll bid very low,
Say they are light the moment you them show;
If beans then say this sample’s very soft,
And in his purchase he will keep aloft;
Show him a sample of good Brank or Rye,
He’ll bid you low and look extremely shy:
This is the case if Mark Lane’s very dull,
And all his granaries are very full.
Yet if the market keep upon the rise,
Tho’ bad your sample that he’ll not despise,
Purchase as much as he can gain that day,
Or from his net proceeds afford to pay;
’Tant always markets make a merchant dull,
It is the banker on him has a pull;
That often gives despair or cause a gloom,
He fears an order to the sweating room.
I’ve known that happen on a