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Epigram 16. Of Womens Clothes

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

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The gentle female Sexe that doth affect
Liberty so, doth liberty neglect:
For (for the fashions sake) they are content
Their clothes should be their strict Imprisonment.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 16. Of Womens Clothes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/183/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 16. Of Womens Clothes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/183/.

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