Relationships
Epigram 8. To Mr. Will. Stanhope the younger my Cousin German
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Relationships
Why do you live so long a Batchelor?
Is it cause you the femall sex abhor?
Or do you fear women are troublesome,
And therefore loth into their yoke to come?
If such opinions do your minde enthrall,
Marry a wife, and she'l confute them all.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 8. To Mr. Will. Stanhope the younger my Cousin German.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/301/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 8. To Mr. Will. Stanhope the younger my Cousin German.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/301/.
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More by Sir Aston Cokain
- The first Eglogue
- Epigram 22. An Epitaph on my dear sister the Lady Boteler, who deceased about the 34th year of her Age
- Epigram 85. To Sir Francis Boteler, my brother in law, from Ashbourn
- Epigram 23. To my dear Cousin Germans Mrs Stanhope, and Mrs. Isabella Hutchinson; Sisters
- Epigram 90. To my honoured Cousin Mr. Basill Fitzherbert of Norbury, and his Lady