Not equal, as their sex not equal seem’d,

For contemplation hee and valour form’d

For softness shee, and sweet attractive Grace,

Hee for God only, shee for God in him:

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To whom thus Eve with perfect beauty adornd

My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst

Unargu’d I obey; so God ordains,

God is thy Law, thou mine; to know no more

Is woman’s happiest knowledge and her praise.”