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.
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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 7, 2024.

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Vpon a Drunkard buried in a ruinous fort in Dunkerke, was this Inscription engrauen, which by the ancientnesse of Time was well neare defaced.

In Dunkerke heere a Drunkard lies with mickle care ysought, "Drinke was the boone the lorden crau'd for rest he cared nought. Long may he wun in this large Tombe, and neuer henceforth sinke "To earth again: that while he liu'd caimd earth for wāt of drink: Heauen rest his soule, and others all, whosere the Lord will saue, "And grant Dunkerk (if't be thy wil) may nere such drūkards haue.
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