Poem by John Heywood

Of One that Would Be Praised

“Wouldst thou be praised?” “Yea.” “Why?” “Praise pleaseth me well.”
“Yea, but how doth desert of praise please thee, tell!”

1. Of Holding an Inn
2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
4. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?
5. Of Good News to a Man

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