Classic Poem

Hold ! hold Diogenes, you're too severe!
Women are meek, 'tis Men that domineer.
Women at worst are needful Ills confest,
But Men incarnate Devils at the best.

Boast not, 'twas for Preheminence your Kind
Was first created; no it seems design'd
To render Woman perfectly refin'd!
That we descend from Eve, I grant is true;
But came not you from Eve and Adam too?
Good snarling Cynick! keep within thy Cask;
To conquer Woman is too hard a Task.
Then urge me not! no more my Patience vex,
For know, that I was born to plague thy Sex!