Living
Epigram. 7.
Living
VVOmen, as some men say▪ vnconstant be;
'Tis like enough, and so no doubt are men:
Nay, if their scapes we could so plainely see,
I feare that scarce there will be one for ten.
Men haue but their owne lusts that tempt to ill:
Women haue lusts, and mens allurements to:
Alas, if their strengths cannot curbe their will;
What should poore women that are weaker do?
Oh they had need be chast and looke about them,
That striue 'gainst lust within, and knaues without them.
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