Versos English Stephen Hawes Wrath

English poem

Wrath

by (1474–1523)

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And, erth, with erth why art thou so wroth? Remembre the that it vayleth right nought, For thou mayst thinke, of a perfyte trothe, If with the erth thou hast a quarell sought, Amyddes the erth there is a place ywrought, Whan erth to erth is torned properly, The for thy synne to perrysh wonderly.