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’Tis reason a Man that will have a Wife should be at the Charge of her Trinkets, and pay all the Scores she sets on him. He that will keep a Monkey, ’tis fit he should pay for the Glasses he breaks.
’Tis reason a Man that will have a Wife should be at the Charge of her Trinkets, and pay all the Scores she sets on him. He that will keep a Monkey, ’tis fit he should pay for the Glasses he breaks.
Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
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- John Selden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 90 · printed citation: Selden (Table Talk). · compiler notes excluded
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