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Hvmors Looking Glasse

[by Samuel Rowlands]

Rowlands, Samuel (1570?-1630?)

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To his verie Louing Friend Master George Lee.

Reader.

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A deafe eare, in a iust cause.

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The Humors that haunt a Wife.

A poore Mans pollicy.

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Of one that cousned the Cut-purse.

Much a doe about chusing a wife.

The taming of a wilde Youth.

A straunge sighted Traueller.

Three kinde of Couckoldes

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

[I would I were transform'd into a Booke]

I would I were transform'd into a Booke
That your affection might vpon me looke,
But in my wish, withall be it decreed,
I would be such a Booke you loue to reede,
Husband (quoth she) which books form: should I take,
Marry (said hee) 'were best an Almanacke,
The reason wherefore I doe wish thee so,
Is, euery yeare wee haue a new you knowe.

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Epigram.[_] The attribution of this poem is questionable.

[I would I were transform'd into a Booke]

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.