Social Commentaries
To the Noble and vertuous Lady, the Lady Cecillia Ridgeway, wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight…
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Social Commentaries
More happy, and more worthy scarce is any
Wife to a worthy mother vnto many:
Whose actions shewes, they from a stock did spring,
Which taught them serue their heauen and earthly King.
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Taylor, John. “To the Noble and vertuous Lady, the Lady Cecillia Ridgeway, wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight….” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/160/.
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Taylor, John. “To the Noble and vertuous Lady, the Lady Cecillia Ridgeway, wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight….” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/160/.
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