<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Woman's Honour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love bade me hope, and I obeyed;<br>Phyllis continued still unkind:<br>Then you may e'en despair, he said,<br>In vain I strive to change her mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honour's got in, and keeps her heart,<br>Durst he but venture once abroad,<br>In my own right I'd take your part,<br>And show myself the mightier God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This huffing Honour domineers<br>In breasts alone where he has place:<br>But if true generous Love apppears,<br>The hector dares not show his face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me still languish and complain,<br>Be most unhumanly denied:<br>I have some pleasure in my pain,<br>She can have none with all her pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fall a sacrifice to Love,<br>She lives a wretch for Honour's sake;<br>Whose tyrant does most cruel prove,<br>The difference is not hard to make.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consider real Honour then,<br>You'll find hers cannot be the same;<br>'Tis noble confidence in men,<br>In women, mean, mistrustful shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lord+John+Wilmot">Lord John Wilmot</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=448944" data-title="A Woman's Honour de Lord John Wilmot" data-description="Love bade me hope, and I obeyed; Phyllis continued still unkind: Then you may e'en despair, he said, In vain I strive to change her mind. Honour's got in, and keeps her heart, Durst he but venture once abroad, In my own right I'd take your part, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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