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Excerpt from The Hindu Wife: Or the Enchanted Fruit True History, in solemn terms, This Philosophic lore confirms For India once, as now cold Tibet 12, A groupe unusualimight exhibit, Of sev'ral husbands, free from strife, Link'd fairly to a single wife Thus Botanists, with eyes acute To see prolific dust minute, Taught by their learned northern Brahmen 13 To class by pistil' and by stamen, Produce from nature's rich dominion Flow'rs Polyandrian M onogynian, Where embryon blossoms, fruits, and leaves Twenty prepare, and one receives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.