Genre:

Ballad, Drollery

Subjects:

Agriculture, Hunting, Cruelty, Scientific Practitioners

    Challenges the decision by the English government to send sparrows to Canada where they will be used as a deterrent against agricultural pests. Mocks the claim made by 'sciencers' that what 'the good sparrers does [...] Is ten thousand times wuth all their damage to grain'. Concludes by insisting: 'the moor I be argy'd that sparricide's wrong, / Shall stick to my Sparrer Club all the moor strong'.