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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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Epigram 2. Of one Mary Fraile, who lay with Mr Reason.
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Epigram 2. Of one Mary Fraile, who lay with Mr Reason.

Mary was long desirous for to marry,
And vow'd that past fifteene she would not tarry;
I am sure this vow of modesty did faile,
Alas yet pardon her for flesh is Fraile.
No suitors came, nor could her longing eyes
Meete any that might seaze her as his prize;
But making conscience not to breake her vow,
Shee is (as then she promist) no maid now.
Though thou know'st not why she so young did sport,
I'de have thee thinke, Fraile had some Reason for 't.