Married, and done as other Ladies do;

Attended only to the poor Concerns

Which any Woman without Genius learns;

Govern’d her Household in a decent Way,

And taught her Nurslings how to read and pray.

Had she, the Mistress of a mighty Mind,

Her Pride to this and to her House confined,

Known Pig from Veal, consulted with her Cook,

And only read, not criticised, a Book—

Such is the World, it had the Life approv’d,