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To his wiues Mother, reprouing her vnconstancie
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
LAst yeere while at your house I hapt to tarry,
Of all your goods, you tooke an Inuentory:
Your Tapistry, your linnen, bedding, plate,
Your sheepe, your horse, your cattle you did rate:
And yet one moueable you did forget,
More moueable then this, therein to set.
Your wauering minde, I meane, which is so moueable
That you for it, haue euer beene reproueable.
Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 34
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