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Jonson, Ben: That Women Are But Men's Shadows

Portre of Jonson, Ben

That Women Are But Men's Shadows (English)

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;

Seem to fly it, it will pursue:

So court a mistress, she denies you;

Let her alone, she will court you.

Say, are not women truly then

Styled but the shadows of us men?

 

At morn and even shades are longest,

At noon they are or short or none;

So men at weakest, they are strongest,

But grant us perfect, they're not known.

Say, are not women truly then

Styled but the shadows of us men?



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