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Amorea, The Lost Lover

Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin

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On a Lawyers Wife.

A lawyer did complain unto his Wife,
He ne're had such a Tearm in all his life;
Content your self (quoth she) but this Vacation,
And the next Tearm I'le use my Occupation,
For with my Little Common Law I've found
A trick in Plea, to get me many a pound.