That 's woman—typified from Fifine to Elvire.

LXXV

Then, how diverse the modes prescribed to who would deal

With either kind of creature! 'T is Man, you seek to seal

Your very own? Resolve, for first step, to discard

Nine-tenths of what you are! To make, you must be marred,—

To raise your race, must stoop,—to teach them aught, must learn

Ignorance, meet halfway what most you hope to spurn

I' the sequel. Change yourself, dissimulate the thought

And vulgarize the word, and see the deed be brought