Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Cxcviii. [^198]

English poem

Cxcviii. [^198]

by (1631–1705)

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He that was erst a Husband pierc’d   with sense of Wife’s distress. Whose tender heart did bear a part   of all her grievances, Shall mourn no more as heretofore,   because of her ill plight. Although he see her now to be   a damn’d forsaken wight.