A Strange Sighted Traveller
Source: Rowlands, Samuel. Humors looking glasse. London, 1608. STC
21386. Sig. D3r.
AN honeſt Country foole being gentle bred,
Was by an odde conceited humor led,
To trauell and ſome Engliſh faſhions ſee,
With ſuch ſtrange ſights as heere at London be.
Stuffing his purſe with a good golden some,
This wandring knight did to the Cittie come,
And there a ſeruingman he entertaines,
An honeſter in Newgate not
remaines.
He ſhew’d his Maiſter ſights to him moſt ſtrange,
Great tall Pauls Steeple and the
royall-Exchange:
The Boſſe at Billings-gate and
London ſtone,
And at White.Hall the monſtrous
great Whales bone,
Brought him to the banck-ſide
where Beares do dwell
And vnto Shor-ditch where the
whores keepe hell,
Shew’d him the Lyons, Gyants in Guild-Hall,
King Lud at Lud-gate the Babounes
and all,
At length his man, on all he had did pray,
Shew’d him a theeuiſh trick and ran away,
The Traueller turnd home exceeding ciuill,
And ſwore in London he had ſeene the Deuill.
References
- Rowlands, Samuel. Humors looking glasse. London, 1608. STC 21386. Rpt. Early English Books Online. Web.
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