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There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.
A gentle hound should never play the cur.
Garlande of Laurell (1523)
With margerain jentyll,
The flowre of goodlyhede,
Embrowdred the mantill
Is of your maydenhede.
How olde proverbys says,
That byrd ys not honest
That fylythe hys owne nest.
Agenst Garnesche (1513)
The honor of Englond I lernyd to spelle,
In dygnyte roiall that doth excelle.
Agenst Garnesche (1513)
What dreamest thou, drunkard, drowsy pate?
Thy lust and liking is from thee gone;
Thou blinkard blowboll, thou wakest too late.
Thou hast to lytell myght
Agaynst Englande to fyght.
Howe the Douty Duke of Albany (1523)
By saynt Mary, my lady,
Your mammy and your dady
Brought forth a godely babi!
Nor wyll suffer this boke
By hooke ne by crooke
Printed to be.
Her eyen gray and stepe
Causeth myne hert to lepe
Thy myrrour may be the devyllys ars.
Agenst Garnesche (1513)
If ye have reed de hyperdulia,
Than ye know what betokeneth dulia:
Than shall ye fynde it fyrme and stable,
And to our faithe moche agreable,
To worshyppe ymages of sayntes.
A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late, Etc (1528)
But have ye not heard this,
How an one-eyed man is
Well sighted when
He is among blind men?
The kynges courte
Shulde have the excellence;
But Hampton Court
Hath the preemynence!
Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? (1522)
Gentle Paule, laie doune thy sweard,
For Peter of Westminster hath shaven thy beard.
A Couplet on Wolsey's Dissolution of the Convocation at St Paul's (1523)
Twyt, Scot, go kepe thy den.
Mell nat with Englyshe men.
Thou dyd nothyng but barke
At the castell of Warke.
Howe the Douty Duke of Albany (1523)
He ruleth all the roste
With bragging and with boste.
O ye wretched Scottes,
Ye puaunt pyspottes,
It shalbe your lottes
To be knytte up with knottes
Of halters and ropes
About your traytours throtes.
Howe the Douty Duke of Albany (1523)
Ye cobble and ye clout
Holy scripture so about,
That people are in great dout
And feare leest they be out
Of all good Christen order.
Thus all thyng ye disorder
Thorowe out every border.
A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late, Etc (1528)
Englande the flowre
Of relucent honowre,
In olde commemoration
Most royall Englyssh nacion.
Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? (1522)