Robert Herrick. No Fault in Women.

NO FAULT IN WOMEN.
by Robert Herrick

NO fault in women to refuse
The offer which they most would choose.
No fault in women to confess
How tedious they are in their dress.
No fault in women to lay on
The tincture of vermilion :
And there to give the cheek a dye
Of white, where nature doth deny.
Not fault in women to make show
Of largeness when they're nothing so :
(When true it is the outside swells
With inward buckram, little else).
No fault in women, though they be
But seldom from suspicion free.
No fault in womankind at all
If they but slip and never fall.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 148.

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