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Middleton & Webster
Mr Middleton first coined the phrase, in 1662,
In the title of his play with Mr Webster
It was: "Anything for a quiet life"
I suspect he was misquoted
For though the phrase has made the long voyage
Constant, unharmed,
Through the time tossed oceans of the English tongue
Human nature and the rotating storms of matrimony
Are similarly, and singularly constant
And personally "I would give anything for a quiet wife!"
