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FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead?
Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.)
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


Lambert. Why, Serlsby, is thy wife so lately dead?
Are all thy loves so lightly passèd over,
As thou canst wed before the year be out?
Serlsby. I live not, Lambert, to content the dead,
Nor was I wedded but for life to her;
The grave ends and begins a married state.
('Friar Bacon,' xiii., p. 70.)




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