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1667–1745

THE HARDSHIP UPON THE LADIES

Jonathan Swift

Poor ladies! though their business be to play, ‘ Tis hard they must be busy night and day: Why should they want the privilege of men, Nor take some small diversions now and then?

Had women been the makers of our laws, ( And why they were not, I can see no cause,) The men should slave at cards from morn to night And female pleasures be to read and write.

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