A double Gelding Gervase did provide,
That he and’s wife to see their friends might ride.
And he a double Gelding prov’d indeed:
For suddenly hee fell so to his speed,
That both alight, with blowes and threats among:
He leads him; and his wife drives him along.
(John Ashmore)
More Poetry from John Ashmore:
- A SPEECH, MADE TO the Kings Maiestie comming in his Progress to Rippon, the 15. of Aprill, 1617 (John Ashmore Poems)
- Ad Melpomenen. Lib. 4. Ode 3. (John Ashmore Poems)
- Ad Martialem. Lib. 5. Epigr. 21. (John Ashmore Poems)
- Io. A thousand Mermaids dance oth' Maine (John Ashmore Poems)
- To the Right honourable, Edmvnd, Lord Sheffield, after his Recovery from a dangerous sickness (John Ashmore Poems)
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