No Fault in Women
No fault in women, to refuseThe offer which they most would chuse.--No fault: in women, to confessHow tedious they are in their dress;--No fault in women, to lay onThe tincture of vermilion;And there to give the cheek a dyeOf white, where Nature doth deny.--No fault in women, to make showOf largeness, when they're nothing so;When, true it is, the outside swellsWith inward buckram, little else.--No fault in women, though they beBut seldom from suspicion free;--No fault in womankind at all,If they but slip, and never fall.
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