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A definition of a Good Wife Verified

A good wife should be like three things, with three Things she should not be Like ' Good wives to snails should be akin "Always their houses keep within. But not to carry (Fashion's hacks) "All they are worth about their backs. Good wives like echoes still should do "Speak but when they are spoken to: But not like Echoes (most absurd) "To have for ever the last word. Good wives with City clocks should rhyme, "Be regular and keep in time; But not like City cloks, aloud "Be heard by all the vulgar crowd.

What Ice becomes in the heat of the Sun Is given to Soldiers by beat of the drum What all girls have and what no women had What (if?) Paul comes behind and (if?) Luke before and (Mala?) Colonel has twice as much as a General What are the best Ships & what are the words Ships.

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