Versos English James Miller Turnbull

English poem

Turnbull

by (1860–1947)

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Foam not nor fret not thus, thou baby knight, The champion of some whorish dame of Norfolk Fed upon turkies by some foolish housewife. Ho! Towser, seize him: shake his silken doublet, And dine upon his brains,—if brains there be Within his egg-shell skull.