Social Commentaries
In Librum
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
Liber doth vaunt how chastly he hath liu'd,
Since he hath bin seuen yeares in towne, and more,
For that he sweares he hath four onely swiude;
A maid, a wife, a widdow, and a whore:
Then, Liber, thou hast swiude all women-kinde,
For a fifth sort, I know thou canst not finde.
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