Poem by Matthew Prior

Wives by the Dozen

O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life,
Said Gabriel, who still as he bury'd one wife,
For the sake of her family married her cousin;
And thus in an honest collateral line
He still married on till his number was nine,
Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen. 

1. A Sailor's Wife
2. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
3. Cupid Mistaken
4. A Lover's Anger
5. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)

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