Englished. Of Women (Epigram 1.72)

A Woman is of Glass, or weaker,
And should not be put to the proof;
Or if she be, not as to break her;
Which is a thing facile enough.

Glass is crack'd with an easie stroke:
And it no wisdom is to put
That within danger to be broke,
Which never can be solder'd up.

All men of an Opinion are,
And it upon this reason ground,
That if there any Danaes were,
Gold Showers also would be found.