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RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marg'ret of humbler stature by the head
Last Line: Though ask'd, I know not how she would resist.
Variant Title(s): Two Rural Sisters: 2;resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 2
Subject(s): Courtship; Passion


MARG'RET of humbler stature by the head
Is (as it oft falls out with yellow hair)
Than her fair sister, yet so much more fair,
As her pure white is better mixt with red.

This, hotter than the other ten to one,
Longs to be put unto her mother's trade,
And loud proclaims she lives too long a maid,
Wishing for one t' untie her virgin zone.

She finds virginity a kind of ware,
That's very very troublesome to bear,
And being gone, she thinks will ne'er be mist:

And yet withal, the girl has so much grace,
To call for help I know she wants the face,
Though ask'd, I know not how she would resist.





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