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.

1. Of Holding an Inn
2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
3. Of Waiting
4. Of Buying a Mortar
5. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?

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