Page:Pleasant history of Poor Robin, the merry sadler of Walden.pdf/18

18 CHAP. XV.

Poor Robin's Littany.

From being turned out of doors,

From town-rats, and ale-house scores,

From lowsie queans and pocky whores,

Libera nos.

From taylor's bills and draper's books,

From sluttish maids and nasty cooks,

From froward wives and crabbed looks,

Libera nos.

From breaking pipes, and broken glasses,

From drinking healths and drunken asses,

From lying lubbers and lisping lasses,

Libera nos.

From paying of lawyer's fees,

From mouldy bread and musty cheese,

From trotting jades and scorning sh,

Libera nos.

From fetters, chains, bolts and gyves,

From pointless needles and broken knives,

From thievish servants and drunken wives,

Libera nos.

From taylors bodkins and butchers pricks,

From tenpenny nails and headless spikes,

And from attornies' knavish tricks,

Libera nos.

From being taken in disguise,

From believing of a poet's lyes,