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The Furies

With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols]
  

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Epig. XXV. Vnam.

One woman made was giu'n to one man,
Which in the Margarite wise nature can,
And doth expresse. The woman men doe honour,
For those chast thoughts which doe attend vpon her
Affecting only one. The Margarite
Doth neuer prosper being indiscrete,
Or separated by it selfe alone:
Which caus'd the Romans call it Vnion.
For which 'gainst enuie heere in womans right,
We may present the precious Margarite.