Be hard at men.

A man of commonsense

Will not value a woman

The less for her reluctance,

At his instant advance

Or for no acceptance

Without a scrutiny,

For a matrimony;

Contrarily she being, he’ll hold

Her weak in commonsense

And low in estimate,

As, having but one cast

For her Life, she shall cast

That Life away at once,

And make matrimony

Mere a mockery

Like that she leapt in the dark.

Women, be hard at men.

15.12.2009