Judith Drake

“ The Force of Reason’s less, than that of Sense.
Your Sex you with such Charming Grace defend,
While that you vindicate, you Ours amend:
We in your Glass may see each foul defect,
And may not only see, but may correct.
In vain old Greece her Sages would compare,
They taught what Men shou‘d be, you what they are.
With doubtfull Notions they Mankind perplext,
And with unpracticable Precept vext. ”