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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published
Harington, John (1560-1612)

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37 An infallible rule in rule a wife. To his wiues mother.

Concerning th'wiues hold this a certaine rule,
That if at first, you let them haue the rule,
Your selfe at last, with them shall haue no rule.
Except you let them euer-more to rule. Probatū est.
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