Living
In dilapidantes sibi credita aliena
From Minerva Britanna (1612)
THE Houndes, sometimes the Fox had put in trust,
From Towne, to Towne, to beg for their releife:
Who was a while in's office very iust,
But shortly after, proou'd an errant theife:
By eating, or embezling, of the best,
And casting to, the sterued Houndes the rest.
Of Regnards kind, there is a craftie crew,
Who when at death of frendes, are put in trust,
Doe robbe the Church, or Infantes of their dew,
Disposing of anothers as they lust:
Whome being bound, in Conscience to preserue,
They suffer oft, in open streete to sterue.
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Peacham, Henry. “In dilapidantes sibi credita aliena.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/68/.
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Peacham, Henry. “In dilapidantes sibi credita aliena.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/68/.
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