Social Commentaries
Of a Foxe that woulde eate no Grapes
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
BY fortune came a Foxe,
where grue a loftie Vine,
I will no Grapes (quoth hée)
this yarde is none of mine:
The Foxe would none bicause that hée
Perceiude the highnesse of the Trée.
So men that Forlie are,
and long their lust to haue,
But cannot come thereby,
make wise they would not craue:
Those subtill Marchants will no Wine
Bicause they cannot reach the Vine.
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Turberville, George. “Of a Foxe that woulde eate no Grapes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/41/.
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Turberville, George. “Of a Foxe that woulde eate no Grapes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/41/.
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