Agr. True; but ’twas never mine; I made escape.

They that would lock us up in idleness,

Shut us from all affairs, treat us as dolls

Appointed for their pleasure; these but make it

The easier for a woman with a will

To have her way. Life lacks machinery

To thwart us. Had I been a man, methinks

I had done as well, but never with the means

I have used. Nay, nay, ’tis easy for a woman,

Be she but quick and brave, to have her will.