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Poem by John Heywood


Of a Painter


Thou art the painter of painters, mark who shall,
In making and setting colours above all, 
No painter painting within England’s bounds, 
Can set so fair colours upon so foul grounds.



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of Holding an Inn
  2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
  4. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
  5. A Reward to a Service Man


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