Little Thomas Greed

Little Thomas Greed
1604

“y’ll never take a rebate: no!”
Seid little Thomas Greed
The courts are getting funny, se
It must be wrong, indeed

“Now, there la Jerry Octopus,
He thinks a rebate great-
He always makes an awful fuss
If he must pay for freight

“The prosecutor’s after him;
The sheriff has a writ,
And Jerry, in the twilight dim,
From home was forced to flit

“I would not take a rebate!-Why
It is against the law
I would not play a trick-not I
I’d have no man of straw”

“I’ll never take a rebate; no:
I’m very sure of that
But there is more than one way, though,
By which to kill a cat”