Social Commentaries
Of one that tooke thought for his wife
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
NO sooner Cynnas wife was dead and buried,
But that with mourning much and sorrows wearied
Maid, a seruant of his wiues, he wedded,
nd after hee had boorded her, and bedded.
And in her Mistris roome had fully plast her,
His wiues old seruant waxed his new master.
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 40
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