W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

‘I have bought Five Yoke of Oxen’

Richard Crashaw (G.) (c. 1613–1649)

LUKE XIV. 19.

I CALL thee to His supper,

for so the Master spake:

Thou say’st “No,” pretending

thou must thy oxen take.

Farewell, O thou unworthy,

and wholly useless guest;

Thy oxen for the Supper

in truth were better prest.