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Epigrams. 49122. An idle huswife.Fine, neat, and curious misteris Butterfly,The idle toy, to please an idiots eyes :You, that wish all good huswives hang'd, for why,Your dayes work's done, each morning as you rise :Put on your gown, your ruff, your mask, your chain,Then dine, and sup, and goe to bed againe.123. To Women.You were created angels pure and fayre,But since the first fell, tempting devills you are :You should be mens blisse, but you prove their rodsWere there no women men might live like gods.124. On a Bed-rid man>A bed-rid man before the judge was brought,The judge bids stand up sirrah as you ought ;Oh sir,nor goe, nor sit,nor stand can I,I am your friend, pray give me leave to lie :Art thou my friend quoth he ? then lie thy fill,A judge gives all his friends leave to lie still.125. In procos.Who woes a wife, thinks wedded men do know,The onely true content, I thinke not so :If Woe in wooers be, that women court,As the word Woe in wooers doth import:VOL. II.E