Versos English Wynkyn de Worde Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take

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Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take

by (1500–1535)

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"Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take, And lyve with her to goddes pleasaunce, Than to go in age, for goddes sake, In worldly sorowe and perturbaunce, For youthes love and utteraunce, And than to dye at the last ende, And be dampned in hell with the foule fende."