The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes |
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Of a Gull. 2.
Oft in my laughing rimes, I name a Gull;But this new terme will many questions breed;
Therefore at first I will expresse at full,
Who is a true and perfect Gull indeed:
A Gull is he who feares a veluet gowne,
And, when a wench is braue, dares not speak to her;
A Gull is he which trauerseth the towne,
And is for marriage known a common woer;
A Gull is he which while he proudly weares,
A siluer-hilted rapier by his side,
Indures the lyes and knocks about the eares,
Whilst in his sheath his sleeping sword doth bide;
A Gull is he which weares good handsome cloaths,
And stands, in Presence, stroaking up his haire,
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But to define a Gull in termes precise,—
A Gull is he which seemes, and is not wise.
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