Social Commentaries
On a Woman
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
When Man lay dead-like, Woman tooke her life
From a crook't Embleme of her Nuptiall strife;
And hence (as bones would be at rest) her ease,
Shee loves so well, and is so hard to please.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On a Woman.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/74/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On a Woman.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/74/.
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