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A Caveat [[underline]] to [[/underline]] Women Wife and Servant are the same But only differ in the name; For when that fatal knot is ty'd Which nothing, nothing ^[[addition]] can [[/addition]] divide; When she the word obey has said And man, by law, supreme is made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, And nothing left but state & pride. Feirce as an Eastern prince he grows And all his innate rigour shews. Then best to look; to laugh, to speak Will the nuptial contract break. Like mutes, she, signs alone must make And never any freedom take But still be govern'd by a nod And fear her husband as her God. Him still must serve, him still obey And nothing act, & nothing say, But what her haughty lord thinks fit Who with the power, has all the wit. Then shun Oh shun that wretched state And all the fawning flatt'rers hate
