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HE PROPOSES A PLAN OF MUTUAL ACCOMMODATION TO BE HIS CREDITOR by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN

First Line: YOU BOTHER ME FOR COIN, AND I'VE GOT NONE
Last Line: WHOSE ONLY CRIME IS THAT HE HAS NO TIN!

You bother me for coin, and I've got none,
And so, you see, my time and yours are lost:
Well, then! I'll here propose t'ye, free of cost,
A plan, fair both for Debitor and Dun.
Attend! - When one has got no money one
Can pay no money - that's as plain 's a post.
So, you shall cease to dun me, even in fun,
And I, de Vautre cote, - like a ghost -
Shall wait till you speak first. Thus, 'tis quite clear,
Peace will subsist between us, - and what more
Dare you desire? It is a horrid sin
Eternally to teaze and bait and bore
A poor Pilgarlic of a Sonneteer,
Whose only crime is that he has no Tin!




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