Jack Ketch, 8 December 1804
File — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Dates
- Creation: 8 December 1804
General
15 loose pages bearing draft stanzas for one or more satirical poems on crime, justice, and politics. The verso of the last one is inscribed "Jack Ketch," in reference to executioners in England, named for a notorious executioner under King Charles II. 19 pages (15 pieces, pinned togetehr).
Stanzas' first lines:
- "Since Trade is grown so dull a thing..."
- "hang out finer ware. Squire Ketch's vanity, brings to recollection an answer... had met with him..."
- "Drinking with Greedy eyes the light..." [verso has an earlier draft]
- "If ...ing wives on their knees..."
- "Morality is in a stew..."
- "Oft have I mark'd old Death & Sin..."
- "Lord! not all day and all night long.."
- "No more am I a terror now..."
- "Pray be so kind to tell the King..."
- "Of late Sir I could crack my bottle..."
- "I who high towr'd over every felon...Again undaunted' we let fly..."
- "And yet not me alone they quiz..."
- "You Sir who tender of the Nation..."
- "And lost too is the Bellman's song..." [Dec. 8--4]
- "Sir, you & I were both together...Horne Tooke..."
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository