/ · John S. Farmer’s Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
The Rondeau of the Knock
The Rondeau of the Knock
1890
By “DAGONET” (G. R. SIMS) in Referee, 20 Ap. p. 7.
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He took the knock! No more with jaunty air
1 gave in
He’ll have the “push” that made the punter stare;
No more in monkeys now odds on he’ll lay
2 £500
And make the ever grumbling fielder gay.
One plunger more has had his little flare
3 opportunity
And then came to Monday when he couldn’t “square”;
4 pay up
Stripped of his plunees a poor denuded J
5 fellow
He took the knock!
Where is he now? Ah! echo answers “where”?
Upon the turf he had his little day
And when, stone-broke, he could no longer pay
6 ruined
Leaving the ring to gnash its teeth and swear
He took the knock!
Notes
G. R. Sims (“Dagonet”) needs little introduction to present-day
readers. Born in London in 1847, he was educated at Harwell College,
and afterwards at Bonn. He joined the staff of Fun on the death
of Tom Hood the younger in 1874, and The Weekly Despatch the
same year. Since 1877 he has been a contributor to The Referee
under the pseudonym of “Dagonet”. A voluminous miscellaneous writer,
dramatist, poet, and novelist, M. Sims shows yet no diminution of his
versatility and power.
Taken from
Musa Pedestris,
Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
[1536―1896], collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.
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