Social Commentaries

Of old Haywoods sonnes

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2

Social Commentaries

OLd Haywoods sons did wax so wild & youthfull,
It made their aged father sad and wrathfull.
A friend one day, the elder did admonish
With threats, as did his courage halfe astonish,
How that except he would begin to thriue,
His Sire of all his goods would him depriue.
For whom, quoth he? Eu'n for your yonger brother
Nay then, said he, no feare, if't be none other.
My brother's worse then I, and till he mends,
I know, my father no such wrong intends,
Sith both are bad, to shew so partiall wrath,
To giue his yonger vnthrift that hee hath.

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Book 2, Epigram 102

MLA

Harington, John. “Of old Haywoods sonnes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/145/.

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Harington, John. “Of old Haywoods sonnes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/145/.

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