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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 Henrici Stephani Epigram. Of Phillis who was delivered within five moneths after her marriage.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Ex Henrici Stephani Epigram. Of Phillis who was delivered within five moneths after her marriage.

Ante legitimum statumque tempus,
Cum puerpera facta Phillis est.

Phillis late married as 'tis sed,
Before her time was brought a bed;
The noise of which, (to her disgrace)
Was spoken of in every place.
Which brought to her by one she knew,
Who told her how such rumor grew,
She smil'd, and thus excus'd the crime,
The vulgar mis-compute the time:
Nine moneths I know they will allow
A teeming woman, and I now
Exceed that limit; Five months hee
Tis well knowne, hath beene wed to mee,
So five moneths I to him have beene
In wedlock joyn'd, then where's the sinne?
Adde five moneths unto five, and then
Who knowes not but they make up ten?