A vvife, not ready made, but bespoken by Dicus the Batchelor, and made up for him by his fellow Shepheard Tityrus. In four Pastorall Eglogues. The second Edition: Wherein are some things added but nothing amended [by Robert Aylett] |
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A Song.
A Pocryphal are Stories not the Lives,
Of valiant Judith and Susanna chaste;
They have and shall be Paterns for good Wives,
So long as any Womanhood shall last.
Of valiant Judith and Susanna chaste;
They have and shall be Paterns for good Wives,
So long as any Womanhood shall last.
No name like Sarah's is so dignifi'd,
By Moses in his world-creating Story,
He tels her Beauty, Tomb, what age she di'd,
Obedience to her Lord her greatest glory.
By Moses in his world-creating Story,
He tels her Beauty, Tomb, what age she di'd,
Obedience to her Lord her greatest glory.
But none th'Almighty doth so much regard
As his meek Handmaids Virgin-lowlinesse,
By whom He for His people that prepar'd,
For which all Generations shall Her blesse.
As his meek Handmaids Virgin-lowlinesse,
By whom He for His people that prepar'd,
For which all Generations shall Her blesse.
Rebecca, Leah, Ruth, Uriah's Wife,
Were silver Pipes for to convey the Seed
To this Conduct, whence sprang the Lord of Life,
Whose bruised heel should break the Serpents head.
Were silver Pipes for to convey the Seed
To this Conduct, whence sprang the Lord of Life,
Whose bruised heel should break the Serpents head.
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All Stories reade over and o're again,
You'l finde more women bad then good of Men.
You'l finde more women bad then good of Men.
The Pride of Scholars is to prove good Readers,
The Crown of Women is to be good Breeders.
The Crown of Women is to be good Breeders.
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