Social Commentaries
To Piero of Pride
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
FRiend Piero, Pride infects a friendly minde,
The haughtie are pursude with deadly hate:
Wherfore eschue the proude & Peacocks kinde.
That gréede are to sit on stoole of state:
The lowly hart doth winne the loue of all,
But Pride at last is sure of shamefull fall.
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Turberville, George. “To Piero of Pride.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/8/.
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Turberville, George. “To Piero of Pride.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/8/.
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