WOMAN WOMAN
And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker saw, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 2.
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
"lis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 41.
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive;
Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 137.
Men some to business, some -to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake;
Men some to quiet, some to public strife;
But every lady would be queen for life.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 215.
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| text = <poem>O! bless'd with temper, whose unclouded ray
» Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day;
She who can own a sister's charms, or hear
Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear;
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules.
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways,
Yet has her humour most when she obeys.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 257.
And mistress of herself, though china fall.
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| work = M oral Essays. Ep. II. L. 268.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 270.
Give God thy broken heart, He whole will make
it:
Give woman thy whole heart, and she will break
it.
Edmund Prestwtch—The Broken Heart.
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.
Let all her ways be unconfin'd;
And clap your padlock—on her mind.
Prior—An English Padlock.
. The gray mare will prove the better horse.
Prior—Epilogue to Lucius. Last line. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto L. L. 698.
Fielding—The Grub Street Opera. Act II.
Sc. 4. Pryde and Abuse of Women. (1550)
The Marriage of True Wit and Science.
Macaulay—History of England. Vol. I.
Ch. III. Footnote suggests it arose from the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach horses of England. Proverb traced to Holland. (1546)
That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.
Prior—Hans Carvel.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs. XXI. 9.
Like to the falling of a star,
- * * *
Like to the damask rose you see,
Or like the blossom on the tree.
Quarles—Argalus and Parthenia. Claimed
by him but attributed to John Phillipot
(Philpott)inHarleianMS. 3917. Folio 88
b., a fragment written about the time of
James I. Credited to Simon Wastell
(1629) by Mackay, as it is appended to his
Microbiblion. Said to be an imitation of an
earlier poem by Bishop Henry King.
If she undervalue me,
What care I how fair she be?
Sir Walter Raleigh,
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| text = If she seem not chaste to me.
What care I how chaste she be?
Sir Walter Raleigh. See Bayley's Life
of Raleigh.
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| text = <poem>That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.
Frederick Reynolds—My Grandfather's
Will. Act III.
Such a plot must have a woman in it.
Richardson—Sir Charles Grandison. Vol. I.
Letter 24.
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| text = <poem>A woman is the most inconsistent compound
of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.
Richter—Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces.
Ch. V.
O wild, dark flower of woman,
Deep rose of my desire,
An Eastern wizard made you
Of earth and stars and fire..
C. ,G. D. ^Roberts—The Rose of my Desire.
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Angels listen when she speaks;
She's my delight, all mankind's wonder;
But my jealous heart would break
Should we live one day asunder.
Earl op Rochester—Song. My Dear Mistress has a Heart. St. 2.
C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,
Quand poule parle et coq se taist.
It is a thing very displeasing to me when
the hen speaks and the cock is silent.
Roman de la Rose. XIV. Cent.
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| num = | text = <poem>Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve) That ere the snakes, her sweet tongue could deceive And her enchanted hair was the first gold— And still she sits, young while the earth is old And, subtly of herself contemplative, Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold. Dante Gabrdj!l Rossetti—Lilith.
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