Living

A defence for Women.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

NAught are all Women: I say no,
Since for one Bad, one Good I know:
For Clytemnestra most unkind,
Loving Alcestis there we find:
For one Medea that was bad,
A good Penelope was had:
For wanton Lais, then we have
Chaste Lucrece, or a wife as grave:
And thus through Woman-kind we see
A Good and Bad. Sirs credit me.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “A defence for Women.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/894/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “A defence for Women.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/894/.

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