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FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN by ROBERT GREENE

First Line: WHY, SERLSBY, IS THY WIFE SO / LATELY DEAD?
Last Line: ('FRIAR BACON,' XIII., P. 70.)
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE - LOSS OF; MARRIAGE; DEAD, THE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
@3Lambert@1. Why, Serlsby, is thy wife so lately dead?
Are all thy loves so lightly passèd over,
As thou canst wed before the year be out?
@3Serlsby@1. I live not, Lambert, to content the dead,
Nor was I wedded but for life to her;
The grave ends and begins a married state.
('Friar Bacon,' xiii., p. 70.)


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