Poem by John Heywood

Of Dogs and Thieves

To keep thieves by night out of my house, 
I keep dogs to aid me in my yard, 
Whose barking at stir of every mouse, 
By lack of sleep killeth me in regard – 
Thieves or dogs then, which may best be spared?
Murder is the most mischief here to guess; 
Thieves can do no more, and dogs will do no less.

1. Of Holding an Inn
2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
4. Of a Lanthorn and Light
5. Of Foreknowledge

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