Poem by Matthew Prior

Wives by the Dozen

O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life,
Said Gabriel, who still as he bury'd 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. 

1. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
2. A Lover's Anger
3. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
4. If Wine and Music Have the Power
5. On a Fart - Let in the House of Commons

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