Social Commentaries
An infallible rule to rule a wife. To his wiues mother
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
COncerning th' wiues hold this a certaine rule,
That if at first, you let them haue the rule,
Your selfe at last, with them shall haue no rule,
Except you let them euer-more to rule. Probatū est.
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Book 2, Epigram 37
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