Poem by John Heywood

Of a Stepmother

Thy father’s second wife, thy stepmother –
For a stepmother there’s not such another.
At three steps I saw her step, since she was wed,
From a stair foot, straight up to thy father’s head.

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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