Blest heavens! how have men deserved your ire,
That made you frame this curse, this thing called Woman,
So comely and so useful, giving fire
To sear us men and yet disdain to know man?
Why on their faces have you placed such charms,
To make us court with sighs the worst of harms.'
1680Pandora's box of woes was openèd then,
When first they took in hand to make a woman,
And all the Furies joined to torture men;
Yet women first were rare, but now grown common,