Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WIFE, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN


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First Line: Lord erskine, at women presuming to rail
Last Line: That's the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LORD ERSKINE, at women presuming to rail,
Calls a wife "a tin canister tied to one's tail";
And fair Lady Anne, while the subject he carries on,
Seems hurt at his Lordship's degrading comparison.
But wherefore degrading? consider'd aright,
A canister's useful, and polish'd, and bright:
And should dirt its original purity hide,
That's the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.





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