Social Commentaries
Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Maid
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
I marriage would forsweare, but that I heare men tell,
That she that dies a maid, must leade an Ape in Hell;
Therefore if fortune come, I will not mock and play,
Nor driue the bargaine on, till it be driuen away.
Tithes and lands I like, yet rather fancy can,
A man that wanteth gold, then gold that wants a man.
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