Living
A Good Old Englishwoman, Who Had Come
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
A good old Englishwoman, who had come
Back to her country from the sights at Rome,
Was askt about them.
" Well then, I have seen
Robes on men's shoulders rich as round our queen. .
Strangers, who know no better, may miscall
A well-stuft strutting sausage cardinal:
It is not often we so gut a name,
But cardinal and carnal are the same."
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Good Old Englishwoman, Who Had Come.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/934/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Good Old Englishwoman, Who Had Come.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/934/.
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