1771233A prettie while these prettie creatures stand,

1234Like Iuorie conduits corall cesterns filling:

1235One iustlie weepes, the other takes in hand

1236No cause, but companie of her drops spilling.

1237Their gentle sex to weepe are often willing,

1238 Greeuing themselues to gesse at others smarts,

1239 And thē they drown their eies, or break their harts.

1781240For men haue marble, women waxen mindes,

1241And therefore are they form'd as marble will,

1242The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes

1243Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill.

1244Then call them not the Authors of their ill,

1245 No more then waxe shall be accounted euill,

1246 Wherein is stampt the semblance of a Deuill.

1791247Their smoothnesse; like a goodly champaine plaine,

1248Laies open all the little wormes that creepe,

1249In men as in a rough-growne groue remaine.

1250Caue-keeping euils that obscurely sleepe.

1251Through christall wals ech little mote will peepe,

1252 Though mē cā couer crimes with bold stern looks,

1253 Poore womens faces are their owne faults books.