Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses

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Title: Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
Publication: London :: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson and Thomas Paine] for Humphry Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill,; 1640.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.; Epigrams, English -- Early works to 1800.; Epitaphs -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Proverbs, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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415 A good Wi••e.
A Batchelor would have a Wife were wis••,
Faire, rich, and yong, a maiden for his his bed—
Nor proud, no•• churli••h, but of faultlesse size;
A Country huswife, in the City bred.
But he's a fool, and long in vain hath staid;
He should bespeak her, there's none ready made.