Edward Young on Women
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βWomen were made to give our eyes delight; A female sloven is an odious sight.β
βIf you resent, and wish a woman ill, But turn her oβer one moment to her will.β
β And beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.β
βAs unreserved, and beauteous, as the sun, Through every sign of vanity they run, Assemblies, parks, coarse feasts in City halls, Lectures, and trials, plays, committees, balls, Wells, bedlams, executions, Smithfield scenes, And fortune-tellersβ caves, and lionsβ dens, Taverns, exchanges, bridewells, drawing-rooms, Instalments, pillories, coronations, tombs, Tumblers, and funerals, puppet-shows, reviews, Sales, races, rabbits, and (still stranger!) pews.β