The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.)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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In Gallum. 24.
Gallas hath beene this Summer-time in Friesland,And now return'd, he speaks such warlike words,
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I feare me they would cut my throat like swords;
He talkes of counter-scarfes and casomates,
Of parapets, of curteneys, and palizadoes;
Of flankers, ravelings, gabions he prates,
And of false-baits, and sallies and scaladoes.
But, to requite such gulling tearmes as these,
With words of my profession I reply;
I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas,
Of withermans essoynes, and Champarty.
So, neither of us understanding one another,
We part as wise as when we came together.
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