The Dutch Lover

“For waving the examination, why women having equal education with men, were not as capable of knowledge, of whatever sort as well as they: I’ll only say as I have touch’d before, that Plays have no great room for that which is mens great advantage over women, that is Learning.”–  Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

Good, Sweet, Honey, Sugar-candied reader,
You little Link-Boy ribalding,
Thick-larded with unseasonable oaths,
impudent and defiant before your Lord,
Mayor of Purge Town
Vomit County,
Clad in Scarfe & Feather
Whose Academick frippery
And musty rules of Unity
Throw up and out in arms
And get your leg o’er the Moon
For she is fine tonight.