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Poem by John Heywood


Of Disdain


“Is’t mastery to disdain things by envy’s school?”
“Nay, nay! no more mastery than to be a fool.”



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. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?


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