<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341115" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. <br>In beauty, or wit,<br>No mortal as yet<br>To question your empire has dared:<br>But men of discerning<br>Have thought that in learning<br>To yield to a lady was hard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Impertinent schools,<br>With musty dull rules,<br>Have reading to females denied;<br>So Papists refuse<br>The Bible to use,<br>Lest flocks should be wise as their guide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III. <br>'Twas a woman at first<br>(Indeed she was curst)<br>In knowledge that tasted delight,<br>And sages agree<br>The laws should decree<br>To the first possessor the right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV. <br>Then bravely, fair dame,<br>Resume the old claim,<br>Which to your whole sex does belong;<br>And let men receive,<br>From a second bright Eve,<br>The knowledge of right and of wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V. <br>But if the first Eve<br>Hard doom did receive,<br>When only one apple had she,<br>What a punishment new<br>Shall be found out for you, <br>Who tasting, have robb'd the whole tree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Pope">Alexander Pope</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341115" data-title="To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu de Alexander Pope" data-description="I. In beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared: But men of discerning Have thought that in learning To yield to a lady was hard. II. Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied; So Papists..."></div> </div> </div>

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