THE XII. WONDERS
OF THE WORLD

John Maynard

1611

I. The Courtier

       Long haue I liued in Court, yet learn' d not all this while,
       To sell poore suters smoake, nor where I hate to smile:
       Superiours to adore, Inferiours to despise :
       To flie from such as fall, to follow such as rise,
       To cloake a poore desire vnder a rich aray,
       Nor to aspire by vice though twere the quicker way.
      

Sir John Davies