The charges following a yoong wife.
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Behold of truth, with wife in youth,
For ioie at large, what daily charge,
Through childrens hap, what opened [gap],
to more begun.
The childe at nurse, to rob the purse,
The same to wed, to trouble hed.
For pleasure rare, such endlesse care,
hath husband wun.
West Diram Abbie.
Land-lordes at variance.
21
Then did I dwell in Diram [sell],[E501]
A place for wood, that trimlie stood,
With flesh and fish, as heart would wish:
but when I spide
That Lord with Lord could not accord,
But now [pound] he, and now pound we,
Then left I all, bicause such brall,
I list not bide.
Sir Richard Soothwell.
22
O Soothwell, what meanst thou by that,
Thou worthie wight, thou famous knight,
So me to craue, and to thy graue,
go by and by?
O death thou fo, why didst thou so
Ungently treat that Iewell great,
Which [opte] his doore to rich and poore,
so bounteously?
His vij executors.
23
There thus [bestad], when leaue I had,
By death of him, to sinke or swim,
And rauens I saw togither draw,
in such a sort:
Then waies I saught, by wisdome taught,
To beare low [saile], least stock should quaile,
Till ship mought finde, with prosperous winde,
some safer port.
Norwich Citie.