the cat - World eBook Library

Chaunged to a dere,
The story doth appere,
Was chaunged to an harte:
So thou, foule eat that thou arte,
The selfesame hounde
Myght thee confounde,
That his owne lord bote,
Myght byte asondre thy throte
Of Inde the gredy grypes
Myght tere out all thy trypes
Of Arcady the beares
Myght plucke awaye thyne eares
The wylde wolfe Lycaon
Byte asondre thy backe bone
Of Ethna the brennynge hyll,
That day and nyghte brenneth styl,
Set in thy tayle a blase,
That all the world may gase
And wonder upon thee
From Ocyan the greate sea
Unto the Isles of Orchady;
From Tyllbery ferry
To the playne of Salysbery!
So trayterously my byrde to kyll,
That never wrought thee evyll wyll!
THE CAT
The BoJee of Phylyp Sparowe, John Skelton.
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