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Subject: SHREWS (WOMEN)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON A SHREW, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: After some three-score years of caterwawling
Last Line: "for she'd as lief be damned, as be at rest"
Subject(s): Shrews (women)


THE SONG OF THE HUMBUGGED HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She's not what fancy painted her
Last Line: What would they say if they but knew / how terribly they scratch?
Subject(s): Shrews (women)