This labyrinth of females, and each station
Described—what's strange—in words extremely few:
I have but one simile, and that's a blunder,
For wordless woman, which is silent thunder.[GX]
LVIII.
And next she gave her (I say her, because
The gender still was epicene, at least
In outward show, which is a saving clause)
An outline of the customs of the East,