Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DEFENCE FOR WOMEN, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Naught are all women: I say no
Last Line: A good and bad. Sirs credit me.
Subject(s): Women


Naught are all Women: I say no,
Since for one Bad, one Good I know:
For Clytemnestra most unkind,
Loving Alcestis there we find:
For one Medea that was bad,
A good Penelope was had:
For wanton Lais, then we have
Chaste Lucrece, or a wife as grave:
And thus through Woman-kind we see
A Good and Bad. Sirs credit me.





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