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If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I…
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If worth in me or ought I do appear,
Who can of right better demand the same
Than may your worthy self from whom it…
The Vanity of All Worldly Things As he said vanity, so vain say I,
Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky;
Where is the man can say, "Lo, I have found
On brittle earth a consolation sound"?…
Upon Some Distemper of Body In anguish of my heart replete with woes,
And wasting pains, which best my body knows,
In tossing slumbers on my wakeful bed,
Bedrenched with tears that flowed…
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