Though marriage by some folks
Be reckon’d a curse
Three wives I did marry
For better or worse–
The first for her person,
The next for her purse,
The third for a warming-pan,
Doctress, and nurse.
Anonymous, “My Three Wives” (after the Latin of Étienne Pasquier)
Some men marriage do commend,
And all their life in wiving spend
But if that I should wives have three
(God keep me from polygamie)
I’ll give the devil two for pay,
If he will fetch the third away.
John Weever, “De Se”
Welcome home, Tall Can.
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