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ON TAKING A WIFE by THOMAS MOORE

First Line: COME, COME,' SAID TOM'S FATHER, 'AT YOUR TIME OF LIFE'
Last Line: "WHY, SO IT IS, FATHER, -- WHOSE WIFE SHALL I TAKE?"
Subject(s): MARRIAGE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
"COME, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life,
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake. --
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife." --
"Why, so it is, father, -- whose wife shall I take?"



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