Social Commentaries
On a fruitful Merchants wife
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
A Merchant newly married went to Sea;
Returning after three years voyage, he
Found his wife busied midst her children two,
And with a third as big as she could goe.
She to prevent a storme said husband! you
By Sea, and I by land have travail'd too.
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Heath, Robert. “On a fruitful Merchants wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/129/.
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Heath, Robert. “On a fruitful Merchants wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/129/.
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