Poem by John Heywood

A Praise of One

See how some above some other praises win –
I praise thee for one thing above all thy kin.
They, without teaching could never practice ought;
Thou canst play the knave, and never was taught.

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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