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Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Montgomery
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Wife
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Good
Feast
Horse
Neither
Shall

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