XXIII.

Alas! worlds fall--and Woman, since she felled The World (as, since that history, less polite Than true, hath been a creed so strictly held), Has not yet given up the practice quite. Poor Thing of Usages! coerced, compelled, Victim when wrong, and martyr oft when right, Condemned to child-bed, as men for their sins Have shaving too entailed upon their chins,--