<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539315" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas - To the Memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a Person undeserving her</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas always held, and ever will,<br>By sage mankind, discreeter<br>To anticipate a lesser ill<br>Than undergo a greater.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When mortals dread disease, pain,<br>And languishing conditions,<br>Who don't the lesser ills sustain<br>Of physic-and physicians?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rather than lose his whole estate,<br>He that but little wise is,<br>Full gladly pays four parts in eight,<br>To taxes and excises.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our merchants Spain has near undone,<br>For lost ships not requiting;<br>This bears our noble King to shun<br>The loss of blood-in fighting!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With numerous ills, in single life,<br>The bachelor's attended;<br>Such to avoid, he takes a wife-<br>And much the case is mended!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Gratia, in her twentieth year,<br>Foreseeing future woe,<br>Chose to attend a monkey here,<br>Before an ape below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Shenstone">William Shenstone</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539315" data-title="Stanzas - To the Memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a Person undeserving her de William Shenstone" data-description="'Twas always held, and ever will, By sage mankind, discreeter To anticipate a lesser ill Than undergo a greater. When mortals dread disease, pain, And languishing conditions, Who don't the lesser ills sustain Of physic-and physicians? Rather tha..."></div> </div> </div>

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