You very woman with the pert pretence

To match the male achievement! Like enough!

Ay, you were easy victors, did the rough

Straightway efface itself to smooth, the gruff

Grind down and grow a whisper,—did man's truth

Subdue, for sake of chivalry and ruth,

Its rapier-edge to suit the bulrush-spear

Womanly falsehood fights with! O that ear

All fact pricks rudely, that thrice-superfine

Feminity of sense, with right divine