Social Commentaries
To the Rouing Pyrat
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
THou winste thy wealth by warre
vngodly way to gaine:
And in an houre thy ship is sunck
goods drownde, the Pirat slaine.
The Gunne is all thy trust,
it serues thy cruell fo
Then brag not on thy Canon shot
As thought there were no mo.
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