{"id":2203,"date":"2014-08-12T20:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2015-08-12T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:53:51","slug":"lady-godiva-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lady-godiva-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Godiva the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lady<\/a>
Lady Godiva by John Collier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lady Godiva the Good
\nDecreed that ride through town she would
\nAs sure as that on the ground she stood
\nUnless her husband ceded
\nThe taxes high that he extracted
\nFor the king that benefited
\nAnd made the laws that were enacted
\nThat the kingdom needed<\/p>\n

Being of one deep of faith well known
\nAnd being the wife of the Lord his own
\nHer concern to him having shown
\nTo do so the Lord permitted
\nThinking that it she would not do
\nAs to do so she would rue
\nBut little the determination of his wife he knew
\nWho the deed committed.<\/p>\n

And the towns people drew their shutters
\nAs around her token deed plans passed via mutters
\nShow respect for her honour, the people utters
\nAnd away from windows and doors keep.
\nBut in the town there lived a tailor
\nTom, his name, who would fail her
\nAnd so we know him today for
\nThe fact that he did peep.<\/p>\n

Her husband had to her in to give
\nOr the shame down he’d never live
\nThough for her boldness he’d not forgive
\nUntil the day he died and was gone.
\nAnd in Coventry by the Forest of Arden old
\nTo this day, they commemorate the lady bold
\nWho rode naked through town her man to hold
\nTo his word the taxes to reduce to a fair one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lady Godiva the Good Decreed that ride through town she would As sure as that on the ground she stood Unless her husband ceded The taxes high that he extracted For the king that benefited And made the laws that were enacted That the kingdom needed Being of one deep …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,446],"tags":[2328,2329,2330,2331],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-moral","tag-lady-godiva","tag-lady-godiva-story","tag-peeping-tom","tag-unfair-taxes","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-zx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3635,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/never-say-the-woman-is-not-a-lady\/","url_meta":{"origin":2203,"position":0},"title":"Never Say the Woman Is Not a Lady","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You could break down in a worse place Even if you were not like His Grace There is in it no disgrace An axel can break on anyone So in Kilbeggan he landed The Viceroy found himself there stranded As if Fate herself had planned it To the pub his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Kilbeggan"","block_context":{"text":"Kilbeggan","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/travel\/walking-verses\/kilbeggan\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lord Townsend Viceroy of Ireland who knighted Thomas Cuffe of Kilbeggan as a drunken antic","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lord-Townsend-Viceroy-of-Ireland-who-knighted-Thomas-Cuffe-of-Kilbeggan-as-a-drunken-antic.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lord-Townsend-Viceroy-of-Ireland-who-knighted-Thomas-Cuffe-of-Kilbeggan-as-a-drunken-antic.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lord-Townsend-Viceroy-of-Ireland-who-knighted-Thomas-Cuffe-of-Kilbeggan-as-a-drunken-antic.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lord-Townsend-Viceroy-of-Ireland-who-knighted-Thomas-Cuffe-of-Kilbeggan-as-a-drunken-antic.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lord-Townsend-Viceroy-of-Ireland-who-knighted-Thomas-Cuffe-of-Kilbeggan-as-a-drunken-antic.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/our-lady-of-clonfert-bless-both-boston-and-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":2203,"position":1},"title":"Our Lady of Clonfert, Bless Both Boston and the World","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Boston comes to terms with its tragedy, we pray to Mary who is venerated in both the Islamic and the Christian worlds to stop hearts hardening, and to see that the actions of a few are not the actions of all men. 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