The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME LXXVIII.
A woman is of such a kind,
That nothing can content her mind.
Who so a ship would vndertake to store,
That nothing can content her mind.
And furnish her with all that she doth lacke:
He needs to haue his purse well lin'd before,
And shall find worke enough to hold him tacke.
Yet women are as chargeable, or more,
Who still are wanting one or other knacke:
So that who would be troubled all his life,
May best be troubled with a ship or wife.
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