Classic Poem

" Twelve Herds of Oxen, no lesse Flockes of Sheepe,
As many Herds of Swine, Stals large and steepe,
And equall sort of Goats, which Tenants there
And his owne Sheepherds kept. Then fed he here
Eleven faire stalles of Goats, whose food hath yeilde
In the extreame part of a neighbor Field.
Each Stall his Herdsman hath, an honest Swaine,
Yet every one must every day sustaine
The load of one Beast (the most fat and best
Of all the Stall-fed) to the Woers' Feast.
And I (for my part) of the Swine I keepe
(With foure more Herdsmen) every day help steep
The Wooers' appetites in blood of one,
The most select our choise can fall upon."