Treasure trove; . .Or courtiers moodily stood around, But all were singing, drinking ;And louder than all the songs he led,And louder he said, Ho! pass the red!Till he went to bed with a ring in his head That seemed like gold a-chinking. Twere wrong to infer from what youve readThat Richard awoke with an aching head ; For nerves like his resistedWith wonderful ease what we might deemEnough to stagger a Polypheme,And his spirits would never more than seem A trifle too much assisted. As soon as the light broke into his tent,Without delay for a herald he sent. And bade him don his away
Treasure trove; . .Or courtiers moodily stood around, But all were singing, drinking ;And louder than all the songs he led,And louder he said, Ho! pass the red!Till he went to bed with a ring in his head That seemed like gold a-chinking. Twere wrong to infer from what youve readThat Richard awoke with an aching head ; For nerves like his resistedWith wonderful ease what we might deemEnough to stagger a Polypheme,And his spirits would never more than seem A trifle too much assisted. As soon as the light broke into his tent,Without delay for a herald he sent. And bade him don his away to the Count to say by lawThat gold was the kings : unless he sawThe same ere noon, his sword he would draw And throw away the scabbard. An hour, for his morning exercise. He swayed that sword of wondrous size, — I o Treasti re- Trove. Twas called his great persuader ;Then a mace of steel he smote in two, —A feat which the king would often do,Since Saladin wondered at that coup When he met our stout A trifle for him: he trained too light,—Grown lazy now: but his appetite, On the whole, was satisfactory, —As the vanishing viands, warm and amply proved, ere, minus the gold,The herald returned and trembling told How the Count had proved refractory Treasure- Trove. 11 Had owned it true that his serfs had foundA treasure buried somewhere in the ground, — Perhaps not strictly a nugget:Though none but Norman lawyers choseTo count it JTort, if the finders frozeTo 5ri*CaSUrt=trOVlC, —especially those Who held the land where they dug it. For quits hed give up half, — down, — cash ;And that, for one who had gone to smash, Was a liberal restitution :His neighbor Shent-per-Shent did sueOn a better claim, and put it through, —Recovered his suit, but not a sou At the tail of an execution. Cceur gazed around with the ominous glareOf the lion deprived of the lions share, — A look there was no mistaking, —A look which the courtiers never sawWithout a s
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