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ORLANDO FURIOSO: WOMAN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Discourteous women, nature's fairest ill
Last Line: Brought for eternal pestilence to the world.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sexism; Women


Discourteous women, Nature's fairest ill,
The woe of man, that first created curse,
Base female sex, sprung from black Ates' loins,
Proud and disdainful, cruel and unjust;
Whose words are shaded with enchanting wiles
Worse than Medusa, mateth all our minds:
And in their heart sits shameless treachery,
Turning a truthless, vile circumference.
O, could my fury paint their furies forth!
For hell's no hell, comparèd to their hearts;
Too simple devils to conceal their arts;
Born to be plagues unto the thoughts of men;
Brought for eternal pestilence to the world.





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