The Anglican Friar, and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook / A Comic Legend

by active 19th century Novice

Sure it makes me feel hungry, although I've just dined.

"Well, Patrick, my boy, you're a fisherman clever!

Such a dainty repast a monarch saw never;

Sure it makes me feel hungry, although I've just dined.

But as eating two dinners seems greedy inclined,

I will just call this tea; but I'm not such a baste

As to eat all myself—you must each have a taste.

Come here, Mike, we're old friends, you must sit on my knee;

And pray girls, get chairs, quick; they are near cold I see;

For the time I should come your ma guessed so near right,