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NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bachelour I will
Last Line: And kisse, but yet be chaste.
Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A bachelour I will
Live as I have liv'd still,
And never take a wife
To crucifie my life:
But this I'le tell ye too,
What now I meane to doe;
A Sister (in the stead
Of Wife) about I'le lead;
Which I will keep embrac'd,
And kisse, but yet be chaste.





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