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A Wife


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“In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.”

Thomas Overbury A Wife

A Wife, stanza 36. Compare: "In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too late that comes to be denied", Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Lady’s Resolve (1713).

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