Social Commentaries

Epigram 14: The deuill is a knaue

by John Taylor 1580–1653

From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)

Social Commentaries

I Shell dislikes the surplusse and the cope,
And calls them idle vestments of the Pope:
And mistresse Maude would goe to Church full faine
But that the corner cap makes her refraine:
And Madam Idle is offended deepe,
The Preacher speakes so lowde, she cannot sleepe:
Loe thus the deuill sowes contentious seed,
Whence sects, and schismes, and heresies doo breed.

MLA

Taylor, John. “Epigram 14: The deuill is a knaue.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/181/.

Chicago

Taylor, John. “Epigram 14: The deuill is a knaue.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/181/.

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