237 + 

Seven Apophthegms for Women + 

How the longest ennui flees, + 

When a man comes to our knees! + 

Age, alas! and science staid, + 

Furnish even weak virtue aid. + 

Sombre garb and silence meet: + 

Dress for every dame⁠—discreet. + 

Whom I thank when in my bliss? + 

God!⁠—and my good tailoress! + 

Young, a flower-decked cavern home; + 

Old, a dragon thence doth roam. + 

Noble title, leg that’s fine, + 

Man as well: Oh, were he mine! + 

Speech in brief and sense in mass⁠— + 

Slippery for the jenny-ass! + 