Living

This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent

by Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832

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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From The Pirate (1822)

MLA

Scott, Walter. “This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/232/.

Chicago

Scott, Walter. “This Is a Gentle Trader, and a Prudent.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/232/.

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