VERSE S, TO THE LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, BY Mr. POP E. I. IN beauty or wit, No mortal as yet Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. II. Impertinent schools, With mufty dull rules Have reading to females deny'd; So Papists refuse The BIBLE to use, Left flocks fhould be wife as their guide. 'Twas a WOMAN at first (Indeed fhe was curft) In knowledge that tafted delight; The laws fhould decree To the firft poffeffor the right. IV.. Then bravely, fair dame, Renew the old claim, Which to your whole fex does belong, And let men receive, From a fecond bright Eve, The knowledge of right and of wrong. V. But if the first Eve Hard doom did receive, When only one apple had fhe, What a punishment new Shall be found out for you, Who tafting have robb'd the whole tree? FINI S. |