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    Death cut the strings that gave me life,
    And handed me to Sorrow,
    The only kind of middle wife
    My folks could beg or borrow.
    Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)