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To the Ladies.
1 WIfe and Servant are the same,
2 But only differ in the Name:
3 For when that fatal Knot is ty'd,
4 Which nothing, nothing can divide:
5 When she the word obey has said,
6 And Man by Law supreme has made,
7 Then all that's kind is laid aside,
8 And nothing left but State and Pride:
9 Fierce as an Eastern Prince he grows,
10 And all his innate Rigor shows:
11 Then but to look, to laugh, or speak,
12 Will the Nuptial Contract break.
13 Like Mutes she Signs alone must make,
14 And never any Freedom take:
15 But still be govern'd by a Nod,
16 And fear her Husband as her God:
17 Him still must serve, him still obey,
18 And nothing act, and nothing say,
19 But what her haughty Lord thinks fit,
20 Who with the Pow'r, has all the Wit.
21 Then shun, oh! shun that wretched State,
22 And all the fawning Flatt'rers hate:
23 Value your selves, and Men despise,
24 You must be proud, if you'll be wise.
Source edition
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, 1656-1710. Poems on several occasions. Together with the Song of the three children paraphras'd. By the Lady Chudleigh. London: Printed by W.B. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703, p. 40. [16],125,[17],73,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T97275) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 j.452].)
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Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.
Other works by Lady Mary Chudleigh
- The Choice. A Dialogue between Emilia and Marissa. ()
- A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea. ()
- A Dialogue between Virgil and Mævius. ()
- The Elevation. ()
- The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd. ()
- FRIENDSHIP. ()
- The Happy Man. ()
- ICARUS. ()
- The Inquiry. A Dialogue between Cleanthe and Marissa. ()
- The Observation. ()
- The Offering. ()
- On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester. ()
- On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Vanities of this Life: A Pindarick Ode. ()
- One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd. ()
- A Pindarick Ode. ()
- The Resolution. ()
- The Resolve. ()
- Solitude. ()
- THE SONG OF THE Three Children PARAPHRAS'D. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. To Lerinda. ()
- To Almystrea. ()
- To Clorissa. ()
- To Eugenia. ()
- To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil. ()
- To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- The Wish. ()