To Fine Lady Would-Be
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To Fine Lady Would-Be by Ben Jonson
LXII. ? TO FINE LADY WOULD-BE. Fine madam WOULD-BE, wherefore should you fear, That love to make so well, a child to bear ? The world reputes you barren : but I know Your pothecary, and his drug, says no. Is it the pain affrights ? that's soon forgot. Or your complexion's loss ? you have a pot, That can restore that. Will it hurt your feature ? To make amends, you are thought a wholesome creature. What should the cause be ? oh, you live at court ; And there's both loss of time, and loss of sport, In a great belly : Write then on thy womb, ? Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb.?
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