Master made a mistress out of a mad maid
a babbling brook of quixotic phrasings
Who prepared for him a fatal feast
pickled herring and wine of Rhine
His final wish - to play an ignoble showing
to the recusant, gilded idol
An over-starched, underfed wastrel
fingering teeth coated in rot
twitching a face caked in Stygian spice
and barking orders to vacant suits of plate wear
She makes her consorts feverish, delirious
With the heat of untold images
With curses - on the cooling bed
of death's referendum; Penny pamphlets
to all accompanying squires and, for the sake
of solidarity, to the shriveling gap of illiterates
For all inconsiderate knights unchivalrous
Dole the lion's share - intensely favored bits
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