Nor will ingenious women, free from pride Humane defects from honest lovers hide. Nor doe the female sex their sighs still feigne Sometimes their brests a reall love conteine. One fire, them and their lovers doth enflame, Their joyes are equall, their desires the same. Nor could all birds, beasts, heards and flocks encrease, Unless desires the females did possesse. Both sexes must all generations make, In which some ofsprings more the sire pertake, Some more the dam, and soe we find Even in the generations of menkind, Their fathers images some children beare, Some like their mothers, and their grandsires are. For in their parents bodies are mixt seeds Which this varietie of figures breeds; Wherein the litle ofspring doe arise With their forefathers countenance, shape, hayre, voyce. Sometimes in girles the fathers face we see, The mothers in the boyes, sometimes they be Made up of both, and soe we in one face Lines both of father and of mother trace. And whom the children do most represent That parents nature is most prevalent. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FEMALE GOD by ISAAC ROSENBERG QUATORZAINS: 2. THOUGHTS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC by ROBERT BROWNING THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 2 by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |