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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUNTING: EPILOGUE. TO HAVE A FAITHFUL FRIEND, by JULIANA BERNERS Poet's Biography First Line: A faithful friend would I fain find Last Line: Send us spending in our purse! Alternate Author Name(s): Barnes, Juliana; Bernes, Julia Subject(s): Friendship | |||
A faithful friend would I fain find, To find him there he might be found; But now is the world wext so unkind, That friendship is fall to the ground. Now a friend I have found, That I will neither ban ne curse: But of all friends in field or town, Ever gramercy mine own purse. My purse it is my privy wife: (This song I dare both sing and say:) It parteth men of muche strife, When every man for himself shall pay. As I ride in rich array, For gold and silver men will me flourish; By this matter I dare well say, Ever gramercy mine own purse. As I ride with gold so rede, And have to do with landys law, Men for my money will make me speed, And for my goods they will me knowe: More and less to me will draw Both the better and the worse; By this matter I say in sawe Ever gramercy mine own purse. It fell by me upon a time, As it hath done by many one mo, My horse, my neat, my sheep, my swine, And all my goods, they tell me fro: I went to my friends and told them so. And home again they bade me truss: I said again when I was wo, Ever gramercy mine own purse. Therefore I rede you, sires all, To assay your friends or you have need; For an ye come down, and have a fall, Full few of them for you will grede. Therefore assay them every one, Both the better and the worse. -- Our Lord, that shope that both sun and moon, Send us spending in our purse! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO AN ENEMY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES HUNTING: OPENING by JULIANA BERNERS |
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