I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.


Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.