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A FIG FOR TRADE, by                    
First Line: A fig for trade!' the maiden said
Last Line: A fig, for trade!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Merchants; Trade


"A FIG for Trade!" the maiden said,
And tossed her fair, but haughty, head,
"Blue blood, blue blood's the thing for me,
"I'll wed with none of mean degree!"
(A Ouida-esque Romance she'd read!)

The Wheel of Time (as usual) sped—
A spinster's life the lady led—
One heard her say less frequently,
"A fig for Trade!"

Then she denied her Gods, to wed
Not Peer, but merchant plain, instead:
His Argo ploughed 'The Midland Sea'
From Smyrna's port to Tripoli,
And brought—'twas thus he earned his bread—
A fig, for Trade!





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