Social Commentaries

Sir Iohn Bauynsfords choyce of a man

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

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

Social Commentaries

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

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Book 3, Epigram 41

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