Or five-and-twenty, if the case demands!

Diplomacy! The wiliest diplomate

Is absolutely helpless in our hands,

He wheedles monarchs—woman wheedles him!

Logic? Why, tyrant Man himself admits

It's waste of time to argue with a woman!

Then we excel in social qualities:

Though Man professes that he holds our sex

In utter scorn, I venture to believe

He'd rather spend the day with one of you