8. A Prudent Father -

Of praetors two and of tribunes four,
Of pleaders and poets half a score,
All asked for a sage's girl to wife.
He sought to give her an easy life,
So he made a prudent if hasty plan.
And married her off to a broker's man.
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Martial
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