The Forrest of Fancy Wherein is conteined very prety Apothegmes, and pleasaunt histories, both in meeter and prose, Songes, Sonets, Epigrams and Epistles, of diuerse matter and in diuerse manner. With sundry other deuices, no lesse pithye then pleasaunt and profytable [by H. C.] |
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The commodities of Mariage.
If
mariage bring a wife,
the wife good children bringes,
Those children happy life.
of happy life loue springes,
Of loue eternall ioy,
of ioy doth health proceede,
Of health long lyfe for aye.
loe this is mariage meede,
the wife good children bringes,
Those children happy life.
of happy life loue springes,
Of loue eternall ioy,
of ioy doth health proceede,
Of health long lyfe for aye.
loe this is mariage meede,
In contrarium.
If mariage bring a wife,the wife ill children bringes,
Those children endles strife,
of strife all hatred springes,
Of hatred care and greefe,
through care doth sicknesse come,
Through sicknesse death in breefe.
lo this is all the somme.
Finis.
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