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