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Poem by John Heywood


Of Treading a Shoe Awry


My wife doth ever tread her shoe awry.
Inward, or outward? nay, all outwardly:
She treadeth so outward, that if she outwin,
She will by her will never tread foot within.



John Heywood


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


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