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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published

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40 Of a lawfull wife.

At end of three yeeres law, and sute, and strife,
whē Canon lawes, & cōmon both cōmand her,
Cys married thee; now sue them for a slaunder,
That dare deny she is thy lawfull wife.