Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets<br><br>A Simple Sermon for Country Cottagers.<br><br>A workman worth your weight in gold,<br>Good Samuel, think not over bold<br>Your Master, if his friendly pen<br>For you and for your fellow men,<br>For all who by their labour live,<br>A word of honest counsel give.<br><br>No harm I trust in my intent,<br>And since the Vicar gives consent,<br>A homely Sermon I propose<br>To preach in verse, instead of prose.<br>This read, till nodding both your heads,<br>To Nan, while she her needle threads;<br>No doctrine to perplex your brain,<br>The practice that I preach is plain -<br>Plain as the needlework she sews,<br>It needs no spectacles on nose;<br>And if 'tis more, by toil opprest,<br>Than you at once can well digest,<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.