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Epigram 7. E contra, of Marriage.
Man was not to himselfe borne, nor can heeSubsist in death, but by posterity.
Women the wombes of men are, and that man
Might after death survive, when nothing can
Keepe him alive but issue: Nature gave
Happy the man then, who enjoyes a wife,
By whom he gives himselfe a second life.
per Th. Beedom.
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