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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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¶ This the Authour wrote vpon an excel∣lent Bowler and his Friend, aptly re∣sembling Mans life to a game at Bowles.
The World is the Alley where we play,
The Bowles we play with, Creatures that we vse;
The Rubs the Passions of our minds, the way
Needs no Ground-giuer, there's but one to chuse
The way of all Flesh: Seauen's our Game we say,
(For Seauen yeere is liues-lease that limits vs)
The Blocke our end, which when it draweth on,
We poake our Bowles, and so our Game is done.