C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Equals Added to Equals

By Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.)

YOU ask why I refuse to wed a woman famed for riches:

Because I will not take the veil and give my wife the breeches.

The dame, my friend, unto her spouse must be subservient quite:

No other way can man and wife maintain their equal right.

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