pound

I turned my Being round and round

And paused at every pound

To ask the Owner's name --

They might as wise have lodged a Bird

For Treason -- in the Pound --

words and replaced by “e” in German ones. The AE and OE digraphs have been

transcribed as two letters. The British pound (currency) sign has been replaced

by a capital L. Greek words have been transliterated.

`And borrowed a couple of pound,

And your bacon I hate like a Turk or a Persian;

So there I sat stuck like a horse in a pound,

While the bacon and liver went merrily round:

And your bacon I hate like a Turk or a Persian;

So there I sat stuck, like a horse in a pound,

While the bacon and liver went merrily round.

there’s the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, offers forty pounds;

there’s the parish of Tyburn, from the Hog-in-the-Pound to St. Giles’s

watchhouse, offers forty pounds,—I shall have all that if I convict

Grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste,

Pound at thy powder,—I am not in haste!

Better sit thus, and observe thy strange things,