Lady - The Ladies Defence: (Chap. 18) lyrics

Brightness of thought, and an extensive view of all the wonders nature has to shew, so clear, so strong, and so enlarged a sight as can pierce thro' the gloomy shades of night, trace the first heroes to their dark abodes, and find the origin of men and gods see empires rise, and monarchies decay, and all the changes of the world survey the ancient and the modern fate of kings, from whence their glory, or misfortune springs, would please me more, than if in one combined, I'd all the graces of the female kind. But do not think 'tis an ambitious heat,To you I'll leave the being rich and great your's be the fame, the profit, and the praise; we'll neither rob you of your vines, nor bays nor will we to Dominion once aspire, you shall be chief, and still your selves admire. The tyrant man may still possess the throne,'Tis in our Minds that we would rule alone those unseen empires give us leave to sway, and to our reason private Homage pay our struggling pa**ions within bounds confine, and to our thoughts their proper tasks a**ign, this, is the use we would of knowledge make, you quickly would the good effects partake. Our conversations it would soon refine, and in our Words, and in our actions shine and by a powerful on our lives, make us good friends, good neighbors, and good wives. Of this, some great Examples have been shown, women remarkable for virtue know jealous of honor, and upright of life, serene in dangers, and averse to strife patient when wronged, from pride and envy free, strangers to falsehood and to calumny of every noble quality possessed Well sk**ed in science, and with wisdom blest; In ancient Greece, where merit still was crowned, Some such as these in her Records were found.