O'erfoaming with rage <br />The foul-mouth'd judge Page <br />Thus question'd a thief in the dock: <br />'Didst never hear read <br />In the church, lump of lead! <br />Loose chip from the devil's own block! <br />'Thou shalt not steal?'' 'Yea,' <br />The white chap did say, <br />''Thou shalt not:' but thou was the word. <br />Had he piped out 'Jem Hewitt! <br />Be sure you don't do it,' <br />I'd ha' thought of it twice ere I did it, my lord.'<br /><br />Walter Savage Landor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/judge-and-thief/
