Social Commentaries
To Veta an old Shrew
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2
Social Commentaries
Your husband musters old things quite forgotten,
As men eat Medlers when they are quite rotten:
All th'rags of time he hangs up, he can see;
Keep out of's sight! or els he'l hang up thee!
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MLA
Heath, Robert. “To Veta an old Shrew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/206/.
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Heath, Robert. “To Veta an old Shrew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/206/.
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