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WOMAN'S WILL by JOHN GODFREY SAXE

First Line: MEN DYING MAKE THEIR WILLS - BUT WIVES
Last Line: THE GENTLE DAMES HAVE HAD?
Subject(s): MARRIAGE; WOMEN; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

MEN, dying, make their wills, but wives
Escape a work so sad;
Why should they make what all their lives
The gentle dames have had?



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