Poem by John Heywood

Of a Hand-gun and a Hand

Thou hast a good hand-gun, but what’s thy hand
When thou shootest of [’t], out of danger to stand?
No standing more sure, in any place or plat,
Than to stand close to the mark thou shootest at.

1. Of Holding an Inn
2. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
3. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
4. A Reward to a Service Man
5. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?

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