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A man that lives an unreproved Life,
The Conjugal Companion of one Wife,
One watchful, temperate, and hospitable,
One well compos'd, and for instruction able;
A man, that from excess in Wine refrains,
That seeks not to be rich by sordid gains:
That neither is malicious, nor a striker,
Nor of ought avariciously a seeker.
But just, no Novice; one that without blame
Guides his own house, and hath an honest fame.
The Conjugal Companion of one Wife,
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One well compos'd, and for instruction able;
A man, that from excess in Wine refrains,
That seeks not to be rich by sordid gains:
That neither is malicious, nor a striker,
Nor of ought avariciously a seeker.
But just, no Novice; one that without blame
Guides his own house, and hath an honest fame.
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |