Social Commentaries
A good iest of a Crow
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
A Baron and a Knight, one day walking
On Richmond greene, & as they were in talking,
A Crow, that lighted on the raile by Fortune,
Stood becking, and cry'd kaw with noise importune.
This bird, the Baron said, doth you salute,
Sir Knight, as if to you he had some sute,
Not vnto me, the Knight reply'd in pleasance,
'Tis to some Lord he makes so low obeysance.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 20
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