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Today’s Poem: Wedlock: A Satire

Today’s Poem: Wedlock: A Satire

Mehetabel Wesley Wright in a Juvenalian vein, on the sorrow that is in marriage

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John Kay, printer, Before Marriage, After Marriage, 1789 (Wikimedia Commons)

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