University of Virginia Library

[Where Women, doubtless, are possest]

Where Women, doubtless, are possest,
Of Faculties discerning;
Since they (kind Souls) so oft are Blest,
With Men of Parts and Learning.
One Pulpit's Common to the Gown,
For Teachers to be seen in;
But they have Numbers in the Town,
Where Preachers oft have been in.
All standing stifly to their Text,
Till clear'd the Point most fairly;
Whilst those they 'nstruct are never vext,
But when they've done too Early.