Poem Genre / Form: Epigram / Poem Theme: Corruption

First Line:: When knaves come to preferment they rise as
Last Line:: Gallows are raised in the Low Countries one | Upon another's shoulders
Author:: John Webster (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17304

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1. Clo asked me one day to tell her a lie

2. Did you never see the cozened daw

3. False hair false teeth and one false eye

4. Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee

5. Her friars holy Rome does Fathers call

6. Honest and poor faithful in word and thought

7. In church your grandsire cut his throat

8. In me false Thais as you pass

9. If without gold salvation can't be bought

10. If without gold salvation can't be bought

11. Man and money a mutual friendship show

12. Mendax 'tis said thou art such a liar grown

13. Niger with treachery lies and spite

14. No cause nor client fat will Cheverill lease

15. O times O manners Cicero cried out

16. See Proteus every shape and form put on

17. She's bent like a ninepence and would have been broken

18. Sir Thomas of Wentworth inflexibly good

19. Subtle the Prussian Dutchmen wary

20. Talk Strephon no more of what's honest or just

21. That votes for money now are sold

22. The holy father bears two keys

23. The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule

24. The traitor Judas stands upon record

25. Though Dunstan the elder more pious than civil

26. Thy father Genoese thy mother Greek

27. Tis plain ye holy sinners

28. To raise a lady's expectations high

29. Two parties had a difference and the cause

30. When knaves come to preferment they rise as

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1. Clo asked me one day to tell her a lie

2. Did you never see the cozened daw

3. False hair false teeth and one false eye

4. Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee

5. Her friars holy Rome does Fathers call

6. Honest and poor faithful in word and thought

7. In church your grandsire cut his throat

8. In me false Thais as you pass

9. If without gold salvation can't be bought

10. If without gold salvation can't be bought

11. Man and money a mutual friendship show

12. Mendax 'tis said thou art such a liar grown

13. Niger with treachery lies and spite

14. No cause nor client fat will Cheverill lease

15. O times O manners Cicero cried out

16. See Proteus every shape and form put on

17. She's bent like a ninepence and would have been broken

18. Sir Thomas of Wentworth inflexibly good

19. Subtle the Prussian Dutchmen wary

20. Talk Strephon no more of what's honest or just

21. That votes for money now are sold

22. The holy father bears two keys

23. The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule

24. The traitor Judas stands upon record

25. Though Dunstan the elder more pious than civil

26. Thy father Genoese thy mother Greek

27. Tis plain ye holy sinners

28. To raise a lady's expectations high

29. Two parties had a difference and the cause

30. When knaves come to preferment they rise as