Living

No fault in women.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

NO fault in women to refuse
The offer, which they most wo'd chuse.
No fault in women, to confesse
How tedious they are in their dresse.
No fault in women, to lay on
The tincture of Vermillion:
And there to give the cheek a die
Of white, where nature doth deny.
No fault in women, to make show
Of largeness, when th'are nothing so:
(When true it is, the out-side swels
With inward Buckram, little else.)
No fault in women, though they be
But seldome from suspition free:
No fault in womankind, at all,
If they but slip, and never fall.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “No fault in women.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/293/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “No fault in women.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/293/.

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