The ape, the monkey and baboon did meet, <br />And breaking of their fast in Friday street, <br />Two of them swore together solemnly <br />In their three natures was a sympathy. <br /> <br />Nay, quoth baboon, <br />I do deny that strain: <br />I have more knavery in me <br />than you twain. <br /> <br />Why, quoth the ape, I have a horse at will <br />In Paris Garden for to ride on still, <br />And there show tricks. Tush, quoth the monkey, <br />For better tricks in great men's houses lie. <br /> <br />Tush, quoth baboon, <br />when men do know I come, <br />For sport from city, country <br />they will run.<br /><br />Thomas Weelkes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ape-the-monkey-and-baboon/
