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-1-*J- Minerva this, and wifht him well to look, And tell uprightly which did which excell. He view'd and view'd, and vow'd he could not tel. They bid him Hemifphear his mouldy nofe, With's crackt leering glafles, for it would pofe The beft brains he had in's old pudding-pan. Sex weigh'd, which beft, the Woman, or the Man? He peer'd and por'd, & glar'd, & faid for wore, Pme even as wife now, as I was before: They both 'gan laugh, and faid it was no mar'l The Auth'refs was a right Du Bartas Girle. Good footh quoth the old Don, tell ye me fo, I mufe whither at length thefe Girls will go; It half revives my chil froft-bitten blood. To fee a Woman once, do ought that's good; And chode by Chancers Boots, and Homers Furrs, Let Men look to't, leaft Women wear the Spurrs.

A^. Ward.^

Cobbler of Agawam," had been a neighbor of Mrs. Bradstreet in Ipswich. He returned to England in 1647, and may have been concerned in the pub- lication of her poems.
 * This clergyman, well known as the eccentric author of " The Simple

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