Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WOMAN'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN SUCKLING


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First Line: There never yet was woman made
Last Line: Till all their sweets are gone, and all again refuse them.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


There never yet was woman made,
Nor shall, but to be curs'd;
And oh, that I, fond, should first,
Of any lover,
This truth at my own charge to other fools discover!

You that have promis'd to yourselves
Propriety in love,
Know, women's hearts like straw do move;
And what we call
Their sympathy, is but love to jet in general.

All mankind are alike to them;
And though we iron find
That never with a loadstone join'd,
'Tis not the iron's fault,
It is because the loadstone yet was never brought.

If, where a gentle bee hath fall'n,
And labour'd to his power,
A new succeeds not to that flower,
But passes by,
'Tis to be thought, the gallant elsewhere loads his thigh.

For still the flowers ready stand:
One buzzes round about,
One lights, and tastes, gets in, gets out;
And all ways use them,
Till all their sweets are gone, and all again refuse them.




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