Poems by Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester With an introduction by Carleton Brown |
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A poore sheapheards profecye
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A poore sheapheards profecye
A milke whight Lion that betokned mercyedid rainge About A pleasaunt wildernes
where foxes Serpentes and devowring Tygers
The long paude beare and stearne Rinocoros
The fearefull hare and nimble footed Roe
The vntamd Oliphant and other beastes
beastes of sterne nature did this Lyon haunt
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That Tyger-like his blood did seeke to perish
A limping foxe that still the dogges did haunt
barkes at this Lion: and the lordlike beast
Smiles at his follie: O Gentillity
how thow woldst quaile thy folish enemie
A time shall come when as this Lion rores
The poore lame foxe will hide him in a hole
And all his petie ffreinds wil be Amazd
And dare not peepe for feare: o misery
When men like beastes are wrought with knavery
As for the rest that are this Lions freinds
hee'le bid them welcome to his Lordlike caue
And kill fatt venison to make them merry
Thus ends my Simple Sheapheards profecy
True as my creed though he deferres the time
he'le make the foxe the pillery to clyme
The Lion bids yow welcome once agen
And craues his fellow ffreinds to say Amen.
finis
Robt Chetr.
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