Social Commentaries
Of Women learned in the tongues
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
YOu wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young,
That had the Latine, French and Spanish tongue.
I thank't, and told you I desir'd none such,
And said, One Language may be tongue too much.
Then loue I not the learned? yes as my life;
A learned mistris, not a learned wife.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 7
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