New and choice characters, of some seuerall authors : together with that exquisite and vnmatcht poem, The wife, written by Syr Thomas Overbury
| dc.contributor | Gunby, David Department of English, University of Canterbury, NZ |
| dc.contributor.author | Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:05:49Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:05:49Z |
| dc.date.created | 1615 |
| dc.date.issued | 1985-03-06 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2253 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2253 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2253 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Webster, John, 1580?-1625? |
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| dc.language | English |
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| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Caricatures -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | New and choice characters, of some seuerall authors : together with that exquisite and vnmatcht poem, The wife, written by Syr Thomas Overbury |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<TITLE NEW AND CHOICE CHARACTERS, OF SEUERALL AUTHORS, TOGETHER WITH THAT
EXQUISITE AND VNMATCHT POEME, THE WIFE, WRITTEN BY SYR THOMAS OVERBURY.>
<SN THE METHOD.>
<LSD FIRST OF MARIAGE, AND THE EFFECT THEROF, CHILDREN.
THEN OF HIS CONTRARY, LUST; THEN FOR HIS CHOICE,
FIRST, HIS OPINION NEGATIUELY, WHAT SHOULD NOT BEE: THE
FIRST CAUSES IN IT, THAT IS, NEITHER BEAUTY, BIRTH, NOR
PORTION. THEN AFFIRMATIUELY, WHAT SHOULD BEE OF WHICH
KIND THERE ARE FOURE: GOODNESSE, KNOWLEDGE, DISCRETION,
AND AS A SECOND THING BEAUTY. THE FIRST ONLY
IS ABSOLUTELY GOOD: THE OTHER BEING BUILT VPON THE FIRST DOE
LIKEWISE BECOME SO. THEN THE APPLICATION OF THAT WOMAN
BY LOUE TO HIMSELFE, WHICH MAKES HER A WIFE. AND
LASTLY THE ONLY CONDITION OF A WIFE, FITNESSE.>
<SN A WIFE.>
EACH WOMAN IS A BRIEFE OF WOMAN-KIND,
AND DOTH IN LITTLE EUEN AS MUCH CONTAINE;
AS, IN ONE DAY AND NIGHT, ALL LIFE WE FIND;
OF EITHER, MORE, IS BUT THE SAME AGAINE,
GOD FRAM'D HER SO, THAT TO HER HUSBAND, SHE,
AS EUE, SHOULD ALL THE WORLD . . .
