An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill

1. 1OH well done Lord E---- n! and better done R----r!
2. 2Britannia must prosper with councils like yours;
3. 3Hawkesbury, Harrowby, help you to guide her,
4. 4Whose remedy only must kill ere it cures:
5. 5Those villains; the Weavers, are all grown refractory,
6. 6Asking some succour for Charity's sake--
7. 7So hang them in clusters round each Manufactory,
8. 8That will at once put an end to mistake.

1. 9The rascals, perhaps, may betake them to robbing,
2. 10The dogs to be sure have got nothing to eat--
3. 11So if we can hang them for breaking a bobbin,
4. 12'T will save all the Government's money and meat:
5. 13Men are more easily made than machinery--
6. 14Stockings fetch better prices than lives--
7. 15Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,
8. 16Shewing how Commerce, how Liberty thrives!

1. 17Justice is now in pursuit of the wretches,
2. 18Grenadiers, Volunteers, Bow-street Police,
3. 19Twenty-two Regiments, a score of Jack Ketches,
4. 20Three of the Quorum and two of the Peace;
5. 21Some Lords, to be sure, would have summoned the Judges,
6. 22To take their opinion, but that they ne'er shall,
7. 23For LIVERPOOL such a concession begrudges,
8. 24So now they're condemned by no Judges at all.

1. 25Some folks for certain have thought it was shocking,
2. 26When Famine appeals and when Poverty groans,
3. 27That Life should be valued at less than a stocking,
4. 28And breaking of frames lead to breaking of bones.
5. 29If it should prove so, I trust, by this token,
6. 30(And who will refuse to partake in the hope?)
7. 31That the frames of the fools may be first to be broken,
8. 32Who, when asked for a remedy, sent down a rope.