Colonel Francisco

by George White
n.d.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, SP III 16.3

Blood! must a Colonel with a Lords Estate
Be thus obnoxious to a Scoundrel's fate?
Brought to the Bar, & Sentenc'd from ye Bench
For only Ravishing a Country Wench?
Shall Gentlemen receive no more respect?
Shall their Diversions thus by Laws be check'd?
Shall they b'accountable to Saucy Juries—
For this or t'other pleasure?—H—ll & Furies!
What man thro' Killainy would run a Course,
And ruin Families without remorse
To heap up Riches—if when all is done
An ignominious Death he cannot Shun?

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