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174 Epigrams.683. On Womens tongue.Things that be bitter, bitterer than gall,Physitians say, are alwayes Physicall.Then womens tongues, if into powder beaten,And in a potion, or a pillbe eaten,Nothing more bitter is. I therefore muse,That womens tongues in Physick they ne'r use :There's many men who live unquiet lives,Would spare that bitter member of their wives.Then prove them Doctor, use them in a pill ;Things oft help sick men, that do sound men kill.684. A proper comparison.As there are three blue beans in a blue bladder,As there are thrice three rounds in a long ladder,As there are three nooks in a corner'd cap,And three corners and one in a map,Even so like all these,There are three Universities.685. Of Death.He that fears death,or mourns it inthe just,Shews of the resurrection little trust.Woman was once a rib,686. Woman.(as truth hath said)Else sith her tongue runs wide from every point,I should have dream'd her substance had bin madeOf Adams whirle-bone, when 'twas out of joynt.