Were I to take wife
- DMI number:
- 21518
- First Line:
- Were I to take wife
- Last Line:
- As may serve to keep her honest and cleanly
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sestet aabccb
- Themes:
- Marriage and Women / the female character
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.265-266
- Poem Title:
- Choice of a Wife.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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