The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.)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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The Works in Verse and Prose | ||
In Afram. 40.
The smell-feast Afer, trauailes to the BurseTwice euery day, the newest newes to heare;
Which, when he hath no money in his purse,
To rich men's tables he doth often beare:
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By the braue conduct of illustrious Vere,
And how the Spanish forces Brest would win,
But that they doe victorious Norris feare.
No sooner is a ship at sea surpris'd,
But straight he learnes the news, and doth disclose it:
No sooner hath the Turk a plot deuis'd
To conquer Christendom, but straight he knows it:
Faire written in a scrowle he hath [the] names
Of all the widdows which the Plague hath made;
And persons, times, and places still he frames,
To euery tale, the better to perswade:
We call him Fame for that the wide-mouth slaue
Will eate as fast as he will utter lies;
For Fame is said an hundred mouths to haue,
And he eates more than would fiue score suffice.
The Works in Verse and Prose | ||