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Women

So Homer stole his wars of Troy, and Greece,
In Ægypt, from a Spinster Poetesse.
A Lady with Top-gallant Fowr
And Busk behind her and before,
Relict of all those virtuosos
Disceasd of French Stoccades in Nose,

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Or all those Hospitaler-knight[s]
Disceasd of wounds in single fights.
Make Nature operate out of Season
Or women to submit to Reason.
As easy as a Lady Buxome
Dos make a Cully of a Coxcomb.