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Poem by John Heywood


A Reward to a Service Man


“Wait well; thy master will do for thee I wis:
Canst thou spy nothing to ask of him?” “Yis:
But when I ask I cannot have that I crave.”
“No? ask him blessing, and that shalt thou surely have.”



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 Good News to a Man


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