Social Commentaries
Sir Iohn Bauynsfords choyce of a man
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
RAinsford, whose acts were many times outragiou
Had speciall care, to haue his men couragious:
A certaine friend of his one day began,
Vnto his seruice to commend a man,
One well approued, he said, in many iarres,
Whereof in head armes, hands, remain'd the skarres
The Knight the man, his markes and manners view'd
And flat refusing him, did thus conclude:
This is no man for me, but I suppose,
He is a tall fellow that gaue him all these blowes
Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 41
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