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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PEDLAR OF SMALL-WARES, by JOHN SUCKLING Poet's Biography
First Line: A pedlar I am, that take great care
Last Line: And wish, against himself, that you may have the knack.
Subject(s): Peddling & Peddlers
First Line: A pedlar I am, that take great care
Last Line: And wish, against himself, that you may have the knack.
Subject(s): Peddling & Peddlers
A PEDLAR I am, that take great care
And mickle pains for to sell small-ware:
I had need do so, when women do buy,
That in small-wares trade so unwillingly.
L. W.
A looking-glass will't please you, madam, buy?
A rare one 'tis indeed, for in it I
Can show what all the world besides can't do,
A face like to your own, so fair, so true.
L. E.
For you a girdle, madam; but I doubt me
Nature hath order'd there 's no waist about ye:
Pray, therefore, be but pleas'd to search my pack,
There 's no ware that I have that you shall lack.
L. E. L. M.
You, ladies, want you pins? if that you do,
I have those will enter, and that stiffly too:
It's time you choose, in troth; you will bemoan
Too late your tarrying, when my pack 's once gone.
L. B. L. A.
As for you, ladies, there are those behind
Whose ware perchance may better take your mind:
One cannot please ye all; the pedlar will draw back,
And wish, against himself, that you may have the knack.
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