Song: That Women Are But Mens Shaddows
By Ben Jonson
Follow a shaddow, it still flies you, Seeme to flye it, it will pursue: So court a mistris, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say, are not women truly, then, Stil'd but the shaddows of us men? At morne, and even, shades are longest; At noone, they are short, or none: So men at weakest, they are strongest, But grant us perfect, they're not knowne. Say, are not women truly, then, Stil'd but the shaddows of us men?
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