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Ben Jonson on Women

1572–1637 England

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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.

The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)

One woman reads another's character
Without the tedious trouble of deciphering.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

A skein of silk without a knot!
A fair march made without a halt!
A curious form without a fault!
A printed book without a blot!
All beauty!—and without a spot.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Jonson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.