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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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Epigram 7. E contra, of Marriage.

Man was not to himselfe borne, nor can hee
Subsist 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


Woman to him, his vaine name to save:
Happy the man then, who enjoyes a wife,
By whom he gives himselfe a second life.
per Th. Beedom.