Nor reigns ambition in bold man alone;

Soft female hearts the rude invader own:

But there, indeed, it deals in nicer things,

Than routing armies, and dethroning kings:

Attend, and you discern it in the fair

Conduct a finger, or reclaim a hair;

Or roll the lucid orbit of an eye;

Or, in full joy, elaborate a sigh.

The sex we honour, tho' their faults we blame;

Nay, thank their faults for such a fruitful theme: