Living
This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
THIS is a gentle trader, and a prudent.
He 's no Autolycus, to blear your eye,
With quips of worldly gauds and gamesomeness ;
But seasons all his glittering merchandise
With wholesome doctrine suited to the use,
As men sauce goose with sage and rosemary.
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Codex Note
From The Pirate (1822)
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Scott, Walter. “This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/232/.
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Scott, Walter. “This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/232/.
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