206. No Fault in Women
No fault in women, to refuseThe offer which they most would chuse.—No fault: in women, to confessHow tedious they are in their dress;—No fault in women, to lay onThe tincture of vermilion;And there to give the cheek a dyeOf white, where Nature doth deny.—No fault in women, to make showOf largeness, when they’re nothing so;When, true it is, the outside swellsWith inward buckram, little else.—No fault in women, though they beBut seldom from suspicion free;—No fault in womankind at all,If they but slip, and never fall.