And there is much which could not be appreciated
In any manner by the uninitiated.
Alas! worlds fall—and woman, since she fell'd
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, compell'd,
Victim when wrong, and martyr oft when right,
Condemn'd to child-bed, as men for their sins
Have shaving too entail'd upon their chins,—
A daily plague, which in the aggregate
May average on the whole with parturition.