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

by active 19th century Novice

Though Peter stormed, and vowed he'd give no quarter

When land he reached; but Jack thought all this fun,

And cried "No quarter! I'll 'scape whole or none."

Then the friar, impatient, began to use force,

When his line snapt in two, as a matter of course.

Then the friar, impatient, began to use force.

Oh! how then enraged, from his head he tore

The little of hair that his cropped pate bore,

As he flung himself down out of breath to the ground,