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Small poems of Divers sorts

Written by Sir Aston Cokain

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8. To Mr. Will. Stanhope the younger my Cousin German.

Why do you live so long a Batchelor?
Is it cause you the femall sex abhor?
Or do you fear women are troublesome,
And therefore loth into their yoke to come?
If such opinions do your minde enthrall,
Marry a wife, and she'l confute them all.