The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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The Freebooter’s Prayer

(Scotland, 1405)

Thou That willed us naked-born,

Send us meat against the morn—

Got with right or got with wrong

So we fast not overlong.

Prosper “Snaffle, Spur and Spear!”

Grant us booty, horse and gear;

Save our necks from hempen thrall,