<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Ladies.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WIFE and servant are the same,<br> But only differ in the name : <br> For when that fatal knot is ty'd, <br> Which nothing, nothing can divide : <br> When she the word obey has said, <br> And man by law supreme has made, <br> Then all that's kind is laid aside, <br> And nothing left but state and pride : <br> Fierce as an eastern prince he grows, <br>And all his innate rigour shows : <br>Then but to look, to laugh, or speak, <br>Will the nuptial contract break. <br>Like mutes, she signs alone must make, <br>And never any freedom take : <br>But still be govern'd by a nod, <br>And fear her husband as a God : <br>Him still must serve, him still obey, <br>And nothing act, and nothing say, <br>But what her haughty lord thinks fit, <br>Who with the power, has all the wit. <br>Then shun, oh ! shun that wretched state, <br>And all the fawning flatt'rers hate : <br>Value yourselves, and men despise : <br>You must be proud, if you'll be wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lady+Mary+Chudleigh">Lady Mary Chudleigh</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=431424" data-title="To the Ladies. de Lady Mary Chudleigh" data-description="WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, Which nothing, nothing can divide : When she the word obey has said, And man by law supreme has made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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