{"id":3635,"date":"2017-04-08T00:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2017-04-08T01:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:01:57","slug":"never-say-the-woman-is-not-a-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/never-say-the-woman-is-not-a-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Say the Woman Is Not a Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lord<\/a>
Lord Townsend Viceroy of Ireland who knighted Thomas Cuffe of Kilbeggan as a drunken antic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You could break down in a worse place
\nEven if you were not like His Grace
\nThere is in it no disgrace
\nAn axel can break on anyone<\/p>\n

So in Kilbeggan he landed
\nThe Viceroy found himself there stranded
\nAs if Fate herself had planned it
\nTo the pub his party went as one.<\/p>\n

Lord Townsend was known to grumble
\nThe place looked rough and tumble
\nThe gentry were far from humble
\nBut here they would have to sleep<\/p>\n

But with whiskey and sherry
\nThe party soon was merry
\nFrom Kilbeggan down to Kerry
\nSuch a dinner was not seen.<\/p>\n

They lay back their ears at the sight
\nTucked in with all their might
\nThe whiskey sped up the night
\nNever such there before had been!<\/p>\n

Songs they started to sing
\nWith each round they toasted the king
\nTill the viceroy bade the host before him bring
\nHe wished with him to speak<\/p>\n

Drunkenly standing swaying
\nHis subofficers his orders obeying
\nThe landlord for his life was silently praying
\nSaid: “it was me good sir you did seek?”<\/p>\n

“Indeed it is!” said the viceroy
\nYour drink, your house, your wife a joy!
\nIve had never such fun since I a boy
\nThen I and my men had here tonight!<\/p>\n

“I command you for the king to kneel”
\nHe continued grandly with his speel
\nThe landlord worried, wished this wasnt real
\nHe was shivering with the fright.<\/p>\n

“In thanks for your abode
\nThat I dreaded when into town I rode
\nIn apprehension its doors through I strode
\nBut, by the king, I was wrong!<\/p>\n

Your food, your company and your drink
\nWould make a finer hotel its head in shame sink
\nNot being equal, said he with a wink
\nSo I will knight you, as a nobel you belong!<\/p>\n

His comrades bade him think this through
\nHe bade them no, nothing less would do
\nNext thing before he knew
\nHumble Thomas Cuffe was a Sir!<\/p>\n

The strangest things the moon has seen
\nBut odder never in Kilbeggan had not been
\nThe party went on, toasting king and queen
\nEach one more affected by drunken slur…<\/p>\n

Cuffe went the story his wife to tell
\nShe told him first to go to hell
\nThen she took to it quite well
\nAs a lady now was she<\/p>\n

But as everyone in Ireland goes
\nRarely so smoothly things here goes
\nWhen the Viceroy next morning arose
\nHis folly he did see…<\/p>\n

He bade Cuffe to speak a second time
\nOutline his nights folly was a sort of crime
\nSo sadly I tell in this little rhyme
\nCuffe had to agree it was not real<\/p>\n

But that was the simple part
\nHis wife had taken her title to heart
\nTo mollify her would be beyond an art
\nMaybe not possible at all<\/p>\n

He this to the Viceroy did tell
\nHe knew his wife and judged her well
\nShe screamed the seven halls of hell
\nSaid shes a lady, and so everyone her so should call…<\/p>\n

Across the Irish and British nation
\nNever before was seen such a situation
\nFor the woman would not surrender her new station
\nNever tell a Lady she is not so…<\/p>\n

The viceroy now taking a second sup
\nSaw the funny side, and gave up
\nTold them enjoy their status, with a giddy-up
\nHis newly fixed carriage to Tullamore did go!<\/p>\n

So ends the tale of Thomas Cuffe
\nWho of his station could not get enough
\nHis wife who kept it by her huff
\nThe Lady of Kilbeggan<\/p>\n

Today in that little town
\nIts Distillery of renown
\nYou wonder as its streets you walk down
\nHow as a lord can end up a common man!<\/p>\n

\"Coola<\/a>
Coola Mill in Kilbeggan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/kilbegganfestival.ie\/index.php\/history\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/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":[3573,81,1],"tags":[3574,3575,3578,3577,3576],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilbeggan","category-travel-poems","category-uncategorized","tag-kilbeggan","tag-lord-townsend","tag-sir-thomas-cuffe","tag-thomas-cuffe","tag-viceroy-of-ireland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-WD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2744,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/there-are-many-roads-to-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":3635,"position":0},"title":"There Are Many Roads to Dublin","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st May 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There are many roads to Dublin, but some will tell you no They will tell you the one true road, if to Dublin you want to go They will insist to you this road is the one to take, the road they show Because they knew a man who went\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Moral"","block_context":{"text":"Moral","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/moral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"There are many roads to Dublin, the most appropiate is the best road you are confortable to drive that leads from where you are, not the road another shows you. 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