XIIII.
[If fathers knew but how to leaue]
[1]
If fathers knew but how to leaue
Their children wit as they do wealth,
& could constraine them to receiue
That physicke which brings perfect health,
Ye world would not admiring stand,
A womans face and womans hand.
2
Women confesse they must obey,
We men will needes be seruants still:
We kisse their hands and what they say,
We must commend bee't neuer so ill.
Thus we like fooles admiring stand,
Her pretty foote and pretty hand.
3
We blame their pride which we increase,
By making mountaines of a mouse:
We praise because we know we please,
Poore women are too credulous.
To thinke that we admiring stand,
Or foote, or face, or foolish hand.
