Classic Poem

Hug Gross: Epigram to J. Douse of the Woad of Holland taught English

That I some miracles may rowse
To tempt the strangers Faith my Dowse
Know that allthough noe flocks heer stray
Minnerva's Spinsters seldom play
We dwell in Touns are very good
Though in a Cuntry bears no wood
All's Pasture, Ceres field we lack
With heaps of Grain yet barnes do crack
Our Sellers full with Vessells stand
Yet heer no vines for th'Pruners hand
Heer Flaxen stalks are very rare
Yet tel me wher more Hollands are:
Our Dwellings to the waters joygn
Yet Douse our thirsts we quench with wine.