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Poem by John Heywood


Of a Man’s Head and the Pillory


Upon the pillory, your worshipful head 
Unto the pillory doth worship far spread, 
Which worship the pillory requiteth ill now; 
For, as you worship it, so it shameth yow.



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of Holding an Inn
  2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
  4. Of Dogs and Thieves
  5. Of Foreknowledge


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