Social Commentaries

Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Merchant

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

My trade doth euery thing to euery land supply,
Discouer unknowne coasts, strange Countries to ally;
I neuer did forestall, I neuer did ingrosse,
No custome did withdraw, though I return'd with losse.
I thriue by faire exchange, by selling and by buying,
And not by Jewish vse, reprisall, fraud, or lying.

MLA

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Merchant.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/166/.

Chicago

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Merchant.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/166/.

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