Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WIVES BY THE DOZEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR


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First Line: O death! How thou spoil'st the best project of life!
Last Line: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


O DEATH! how thou spoil'st the best project of life!
Said Gabriel, who still, as he buried one wife,
For the sake of her family, married her cousin;
And thus, in an honest collateral line,
He still married on till his number was nine,
Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen.





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