Social Commentaries

Yong Haywoods answere to my Lord of Warwicke

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3

Social Commentaries

ONe neere of kinne to Heywood by his birth,
And no lesse neere in name, and most in mirh,
Was once for his Religions sake committed,
Whose case a Noble Peere so lately pittied:
He sent to know what things with him were scant,
And offered frankely to supply his want.
Thankes to that Lord, said he, that will me good,
For I want all things sauing hay and wood.

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Book 3, Epigram 1

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