To A. R. upon the same.

Not that I would instruct or tutor you

What is a wife's behest, or husband's due,

Give I this Widow-Wife. Your early date

Of knowledge makes such precepts slow and late.

This book is but your glass, where you shall see

What yourself are, what other wives should be.

To A. R.] 3 Widow-] Overbury himself being dead.