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ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS THE IGNORANT SAVAGE WILL SELL HIS OWN WIFE
Last Line: TO GIVE THESE RASCALS A DOSE OF CAWDLE
Subject(s): BIBLE; MYTHOLOGY; PAINTINGS & PAINTERS;
to Correggio Rubens Rembrandt Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani
DuCrowe & Dilberry Doodle

As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife
For a Sword or a Cutlass a dagger or Knife
So the Taught Savage Englishman spends his whole Fortune
On a smear or a squall to destroy Picture or Tune
And I call upon Colonel Wardle
To give these Rascals a dose of Cawdle



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