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WIVES BY THE DOZEN by MATTHEW PRIOR

First Line: O DEATH! HOW THOU SPOIL'ST THE BEST PROJECT OF LIFE!
Last Line: FULL SORRY TO DIE TILL HE MADE UP HIS DOZEN.
Subject(s): DEATH; LIFE; MARRIAGE; DEAD, THE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
O DEATH! how thou spoil'st the best project of life!
Said Gabriel, who still, as he buried 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.



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