Cock-throwing
Cock a doodle do! 'tis the bravest game,
Take a cock from his dame,
And bind him to a stake:
How he struts! how he throws!
How he swaggers! how he crows!
As if the day newly brake.
How his mistress cackles
Thus to find him in shackles
And tied to a pack-thread garter!
Oh, the bears and the bulls
Are but corpulent gulls
To the valiant Shrovetide martyr!
Cock a doodle do! 'tis the bravest game,
Take a cock from his dame,
And bind him to a stake:
How he struts! how he throws!
How he swaggers! how he crows!
As if the day newly brake.
How his mistress cackles
Thus to find him in shackles
And tied to a pack-thread garter!
Oh, the bears and the bulls
Are but corpulent gulls
To the valiant Shrovetide martyr!
Take a cock from his dame,
And bind him to a stake:
How he struts! how he throws!
How he swaggers! how he crows!
As if the day newly brake.
How his mistress cackles
Thus to find him in shackles
And tied to a pack-thread garter!
Oh, the bears and the bulls
Are but corpulent gulls
To the valiant Shrovetide martyr!
Cock a doodle do! 'tis the bravest game,
Take a cock from his dame,
And bind him to a stake:
How he struts! how he throws!
How he swaggers! how he crows!
As if the day newly brake.
How his mistress cackles
Thus to find him in shackles
And tied to a pack-thread garter!
Oh, the bears and the bulls
Are but corpulent gulls
To the valiant Shrovetide martyr!
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