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Poem by John Heywood


Of Good News to a Man


“What news?” “Good news for thee as wit can scan;
We have news that thou art an honest man.
This news coming even now thus fresh and new,
All men take for good; no man taketh for true.”



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. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
  5. Of Foreknowledge


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