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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

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Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.

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Transl.

Commit a Ship unto the Wind
But not thy Faith to Woman-kind,
For th' Oceans waving billows are
Safer than Woman's faith by far.
No Woman's good, and if there be
Hereafter such a thing as she,
'Tis by, I know not what, of Fate,
That can from bad, a good create.