Social Commentaries
The choice of a wife
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
When Adam soundly slept, God Eve did make,
And when our fond desires are least awake,
The sound est course it is a wife to take:
For he that shootes love from a wanton eye,
Though on a faire match he may hit thereby,
Yet fouly erres from th'white of chastity.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The choice of a wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/398/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The choice of a wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/398/.
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