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Thomas Flatman (1637 - 1688 / England)
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''Till she grows as grey as a cat,''
Thomas Flatman (1637-1688), British poet. On Marriage (l. 7). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.
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''How happy a thing were a wedding,
Thomas Flatman (1637-1688), British poet. On Marriage (l. 1-4). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;''
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The Sad Day
O THE sad day!
When friends shall shake their heads, and say
Of miserable me--
'Hark, how he groans!
Look, how he pants for breath!
See how he struggles with the pangs of death!'
When they shall say of these dear eyes--
'How hollow, O how dim they be!
Mark how his breast doth rise and swell
