Social Commentaries

Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Married Man

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

I only am the man, among all married men,
That do not wish the Priest, to be unlinckt agen.
And thogh my shoo did wring, I wold not make my mone,
Nor think my neighbors chance, more happy then mine own,
Yet court I not my wife, but yeeld obseruance due,
Being neither fond nor crosse, nor iealous, nor vntrue.

MLA

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Married Man.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/169/.

Chicago

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Married Man.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/169/.

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