Social Commentaries
Onn Johne a Dalbenie
From The Rowley Poems (ed. Tyrwhitt, 1778)
Social CommentariesHistory & Politics
Johne makes a jarre boute Lancaster and Yorke;
Bee stille, gode manne, and learne to mynde thie worke.
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Codex Note
A two-line epigram telling a quarrelsome man to hold his peace about Lancaster and York and mind his own work.
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