Come, Come," Said Tom's Father, "at Your Time Of Life

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"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life,
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake--
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"--
"Why, so it is, father--whose wife shall I take?"
-- "A Joke Versified"
-- from "Miscellaneous Poems" by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

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