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MARRIAGE, by                    
First Line: A man may live thrice nestor's life
Last Line: To keep me free from either ill
Variant Title(s): Against Women Either Good Or Bad
Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives


A MAN may live thrice Nestor's life,
Thrice wander out Ulysses' raoe,
Yet never find Ulysses' wife;--
Such change hath chanced in this case!
Less age will serve than Paris had,
Small pain (if none be small enow)
To find good store of Helen's trade:
Such sap the root doth yield the bough!
For one good wife, Ulysses slew
A worthy knot of gentle blood:
For one ill wife, Greece overthrew
The town of Troy.--Sith bad and good
Bring mischief, Lord let be thy will
To keep me free from either ill.





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