Women’s Unknown Vertues
She, y
t was ever fair, & never proud;
Had Tongue at Will, & yet was never loud;
Never lackt Gold, & yet went never gay;
Fled frō her Wish, w
n she said, Now I may:
She y
t being angred, & Revenge being nigh,
Bad her Wrong, Stay, & her Displeasure, Fly:
She, y
t could think, & ne’r disclose her Mind;
See Suito
rs following, & not look behind:
She were a Wight, (if ever such Wights were) -------
By Iago,
in Othello (TLN923-933),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 53, f.43