The good vvife: or, A rare one amongst women VVhereto is annexed an exquisite discourse of epitaphs: including the choisest thereof, ancient or moderne. Musophilus.
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- The good vvife: or, A rare one amongst women VVhereto is annexed an exquisite discourse of epitaphs: including the choisest thereof, ancient or moderne. Musophilus.
- Author
- Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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- At London :: Printed [by John Beale] for Richard Redmer, and are to be sold at his shop at the west end of St Pauls Church,
- 1618.
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"The good vvife: or, A rare one amongst women VVhereto is annexed an exquisite discourse of epitaphs: including the choisest thereof, ancient or moderne. Musophilus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B11746.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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Where Paphos was erected to expresse,
There Hero was to Venus Ʋotaresse:
Rest in honor, Thete rest
By the Sea-Nymphs euer blest,
for they loue
to approue
The rare condition of that diuine Creature,
Where Art is far surpast by spotlesse Nature.
Notes
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* 1.1
Vid. Martial: in nom. Thet. & Nympham, & pastorem hoc nomine inducit in Elegijs & E∣pigrammat.