More Unoriginal Rhymes

No one has made more unoriginal rhymes:
“When hot for certainties — or maybe hotter —
Who is the Pot, then, pray, and who the Potter?
Elect a criminal, you expect crimes,
Dead trees, emblems of deeds done in their climes
(Myrtles, cypress), the castle of the otter,
Glass beads better than any man’s fair daughter —
The best of times? It was the worst of times.

Life more than meat, and body more than raiment?
Sure, dats de charge. Write it in de blotter
And welcome back to you, sir, Mistah Kotter
(He dead). All these remarks are underlayment
From debtor Peter to ensure Paul’s payment”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.