Social Commentaries
Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Merchant
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.
Cite this poem
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/.
Read this poem with the Codex →