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Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

George Crabbe
Boys, Fishing, Wife
George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes”

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

George Crabbe
Men, Numbers, Wife
George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.445

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

George Crabbe
Thinking, Wife, Speak
George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.143

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