while with Fletcher the charge becomes yet more bitter. Thenot, contemplating the constancy of Clorin, is amazed
that such virtue can
Be resident in lesser than a man, (II. ii. 83,)
or that any should be found capable of mastering the suggestions of caprice
And that great god of women, appetite. (ib. 146.)
Amarillis, courting Perigot, asks in scorn:
Still think'st thou such a thing as chastity
Is amongst women? (III. i. 297.)
The Sullen Shepherd declares of the wounded Amoret:
Thou wert not meant,
Sure, for a woman, thou art so innocent; (ib. 358.)
and sums up his opinion of the sex in the words:
Women love only opportunity
And not the man. (ib. 127.)