Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick] |
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No good wives in London.
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No good wives in London.
The Countri's full of good wives, speciallyThe wives of all the clownes and yeomandry;
But Tripe-wives, Broom-wives, Oyster-wives & all,
We still in London Mistresses doe call:
Then London hath no good wives, sith they abide
All in the Country better to be try'd.
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