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The Ladies Case--a song

From Apollo’s cabinet: or the muses delight., p143, 1757.

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The Ladies Case. Set by Mr. GOUGE.

 How hard is the fortune of all woman kind?
 For ever subjected, for ever confin'd:
 The parent controuls us until we are wives,
 The husbands enslave us the rest of their lives.
 
 [How] fondly we love, yet we dare not reveal,
 [We] secretly languish, compell'd to conceal;
 Deny'd e'ery freedom of life to enjoy,
 We're sham'd if we're kind, we're blam'd if we're coy.