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Poem by John Heywood


Of One that Would Be Praised


“Wouldst thou be praised?” “Yea.” “Why?” “Praise pleaseth me well.”
“Yea, but how doth desert of praise please thee, tell!”



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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