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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION IN A GARDEN, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If any flower that here is grown
Last Line: And so my wife taught me to say.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
First Line: If any flower that here is grown
Last Line: And so my wife taught me to say.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
If any flower that here is grown,
Or any herb, may ease your pain,
Take and accompt it as your own,
But recompense the like again;
For some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.
If here to walk you take delight,
Why, come and welcome, when you will;
If I bid you sup here this night,
Bid me another time, and still
Think some and some is honest play,
For so my wife taught me to say.
Thus if you sup or dine with me,
If you walk here or sit at ease,
If you desire the thing you see,
And have the same your mind to please,
Think some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.
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