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Poem by John Heywood


Of Holding an Inn


Being holden in Newgate, thou canst not be 
An innholder, for thine inn holdeth thee.



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  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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