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Epigram to Radcliffe

by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1517–1547

From Poems (ed. Padelford, 1920)

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My Ratclif, when thy rechlesse youth offendes,
Receue thy scourge by others chastisement.
For such callyng, when it workes none amendes,
Then plagues are sent without aduertisement.
Yet Salomon sayd, the wronged shall recure;
But Wiat said true, the skarre doth aye endure.

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