Valmiki,
The Ramayana of Valmiki — Canto XX: Kaus'alyá's Lament
(1870s)
“ And brook, though better far than they, The soul distressing words they say. What woman can be doomed to pine In misery more sore than mine, Whose hopeless days must still be spent In grief that ends not and lament? ”
Valmiki,
The Ramayana of Valmiki — Canto XX: Kaus'alyá's Lament
(1870s)
“ But Spenser likens an infuriate woman to a cow 'That is berobbed of her youngling dere.' Shakspeare also makes King Henry VI. compare himself to the calf's mother that 'Runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went.' 'Cows,' says De Quincey, 'are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures ”
