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Pleasant dialogues and dramma's

selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood

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Ex Ioanne secundo Hagiensi. Of one Charinus who had married a deformed wife.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  


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Ex Ioanne secundo Hagiensi. Of one Charinus who had married a deformed wife.

Nuper Charine conjugem,
Vidi tuam, tam candidam, &c.

Charinus I beheld of late,
Thy wife so sweet, so delicate,
So faire, so chaste, so neat, so fine,
That almost I could wish her mine.
And if great Iove would give me three,
In all respects but such as shee
I two would unto Pluto grant,
To take away that paravant.