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Poem by John Heywood


Of a Buying a Coat


“I must buy a new coat for shame.”
“To get shame?” “Nay, t’ avoid the same.”
“T’ avoid shame? Thou mayest desire it,
But ten new coats will not hire it.”



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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