Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets with a Discourse of the Friendly affections of Tymetes to Pyndara his Ladie. Newly corrected with additions, and set out by George Turbervile |
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Of two desperate Men.
A Man
in deepe dispaire with Hemp in hand
Went out in haste to ende his wretched daies:
And where he thought the Gallo tree should stand
He found a Pot of Gold: he goes his waies
Therewith eftsoone, and in exchaunge he left
The Rope wherewith he would his breath bereft.
Went out in haste to ende his wretched daies:
And where he thought the Gallo tree should stand
He found a Pot of Gold: he goes his waies
Therewith eftsoone, and in exchaunge he left
The Rope wherewith he would his breath bereft.
The greedie Carle came within a space
That owde the good, and saw the Pot behind
Where Ruddocks lay, and in the Ruddocks place
A knottie Cord, but Ruddocks could not find:
He caught the Hemp and hoong himselfe on tree,
For griefe that he is Treasure could not see.
That owde the good, and saw the Pot behind
Where Ruddocks lay, and in the Ruddocks place
A knottie Cord, but Ruddocks could not find:
He caught the Hemp and hoong himselfe on tree,
For griefe that he is Treasure could not see.
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