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Poem by John Heywood


Of Hogstown


The head man in Hogstown, hogherd is expressed;
Where hogs be parishioners, hogherd must be best.
Yet hogshead in Hogstown is no John-a-droin, 
Pigs dare not quich there, if hogshead hang the groin.



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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