AN ODE TO A TOAD

Oliver Cromwell said to his portrait artist , Paint me warts and all, he had the skin of and old toad. After his death his body was exhumed and hung at Tyburn ,then his head was decapitated and placed outside Westminster palace the parliament he'd spilt so much blood to put into place and power, I've purposely placed thy, thyn ,doth yon old archaic English which in rural Yorkshire communities is still in common use .

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