The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton Edited by Charles B. Gullans |
1. |
2. |
2a. |
3. |
4. |
5. |
6. |
6a. |
7. |
8. |
9. |
10. |
11. |
12. |
13. |
14. |
15. |
16. |
17. |
18. |
19. |
20. |
21. |
22. |
23. |
24. |
25. |
26. |
27. |
28. |
29. |
30. |
31. |
32. |
33. | 33. [Wpone Tabacco] |
34. |
34. |
35. |
36. |
37. |
38. |
39. |
40. |
41. |
42. |
43. |
44. |
45. |
46. |
47. |
48. |
49. |
50. |
51. |
52. |
53. |
54. |
55. |
56. |
The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton | ||
174
33. [Wpone Tabacco]
Forsaken of all comforts but these two,My faggott and my Pipe, I sitt and Muse
On all my crosses, and almost accuse
The heavens for dealing with me as they doe.
Then hope steps in and with a smyling brow
Such chearfull expectations doth infuse
As makes me thinke ere long I cannot chuse
But be some Grandie, whatsoever I'm now.
But haveing spent my pype, I then, perceive
That hopes and dreames are Couzens, both deceive.
Then make I this conclusion in my minde,
Its all one thing, both tends vnto one Scope
To live vpon Tobacco and on hope,
The ones but smoake, the other is but winde.
The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton | ||