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Woman, man’s greatest woe, or bliss,
Does ofter far, than serve, enslave,
And with the Magick of a Kiss,
Destroys whom she was made to save.

— Charles Cotton Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

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Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers,
We, who improve his golden hours,
By sweet experience know
That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below.

My infant love could humbly wait,
When young it scarce knew how
To plead; but grown to Man's estate,
He is impatient now.

Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

My state is more advanc’d than when
I first attempted thee;
I su’d to be a Servant then,
But now to be made free.

Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

The Shadows now so long do grow,
That Brambles like tall Cedars show,
Mole-hills seem Mountains, and the Ant
Appears a monstrous Elephant.

Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

No, hang me if I ever marry,
Till Womankind grow stancher,
I do delight delights to vary,
And love not in one Hulk to tarry,
But only Trim and Launch her.

Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

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