Wit A Sporting In a pleasant Grove Of New Fancies By H. B. [i.e. Henry Bold] |
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Women are not mens shadows.
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Women are not mens shadows.
E. Contra.
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The Sun absented, shadows thenCease to put on the forms of men:
But wives their husbands absent, may
Bear best their forms (they being away)
Say, are not women falsly then
Stil'd but the shadows of us men.
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Shadows at morn and even are strong,At noon they are, or weak or none:
Women at Noon are ever long,
At night so weak they fall along.
Say, are not women falsly then
Stil'd but the shadows of us men?
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As bodies are contracted, shadows soContract themselvs to forms as bodies do:
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Women wil rove and ramble where they list
Say, are not women falsly then
Stil'd but the shadows of us men?
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