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POEMS On Several OCCASIONS.
Written by
Philomela.
LONDON:
Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Raven
in Iewen-street. 1696.
THE occasion of this
Preface is, to give
the World some acAuthor
of these Poems, as far as I'm
permitted to do it: An
Employment I the more wilour Sex
has some Excuse for a little
Vanity, when they have so
good Reason for't, and such
a Champion among themselves,
as not many of the other can
Brutal Advantages of
Strength, they are Superior
to ours in Force, they have
Custom of their side, and have
Ruled, and are like to do so,
and may freely do it without
Disturbance or Envy; at least
they should have none from
us, if they cou'd but keep
quiet among themselves. But
when they wou'd MonopoSence too, when neither
that, nor Learning, nor so
much as Wit must be allow'd
us, but all over-rul'd by the
Tyranny of the Prouder Sex;
nay, when some of 'em won't
let us say our Souls are our
own, but wou'd perswade us
we are no more Reasonable
Creatures then themselves, or
their Fellow-Animals; we then
Compleatly possive
as to bear all without so
much as a murmur: We
complain, and we think with
reason, that our Fundamental
Constitutions are destroyed;
that here's a plain and an open
design to render us meer
Slaves, perfect Turkish Wives,
without Properties, or Sense,
or Souls; and are forc'd to
Protest against it, and appeal
to all the World, whether
these are not notorious ViolaLiberties of Free-born
English Women? This
makes the Meekest Worm atrampled
on; But alas! What
can we do to Right our selves?
stingless and harmless as we
are, we can only Kiss the
Foot that hurts us. HoweBrighter. Genius then ordinaEpaminondas in
Thebes; a Timoleon for Corinth;
(for you must know
we Read Plutarch now 'tis
Translated) and a Nassaw for
all the World: Nor is our
Defenceless Sex forgotten—we
have not only Bunduca's and
Zenobia's, but Sappho's, and
Behn's and Schurman's, and
Orinda's, who have humbled.
the most haughty of our AnWit, as
well as our Beauty. 'Tis
true, their Mischievous and
Envious sex have made it
their utmost endeavours to
deal with us, as Hannibal
Capua, and
to Corrupt that Virtue which
they can no otherwise overcome:
and sometimes they
prevail'd: But, if some Angels
fell, others remain'd in
their Innocence and Perfection,
if there were not also
some addition made to their
Happiness and Glory, by their
continuing stedfast. Angels
Love, but they love Virtuously
and Reasonably, and
neither err in the Object, nor
the Manner: And if all our
Poetesses had done the same,
I wonder what our Enemies
cou'd have found out to
have objected against us:
However, here they are silenc'd;
and I dare be bold
to say, that whoever does
not come extreamly prejuPoems, will
find in 'em that vivacity of
Thought, that purity of Lansoftness and delicacy
in the Love-part, that
strength and Majesty of NumHeroical SubLove to Virtue; that
heighth of Piety and warmth
of Devotion in the Canticles,
and other Religious Pieces;
which they will hardly find
exceeded in the best Authors
on those Different Kinds
of Writing, much less e
And now I have nothing
more, I think, lies upon my
Hands, but to assure the
Reader, that they were actua young Lady,
(all, but some of the AnModesty absolutely for
The way of Thinking and
Writing is all along the same,
only varying with the Subagreeable a mixture, that unPhilaret and my Self, who
have the Honour to be her
Friends, and who perswaded
her to Publish this First Volume,
are very partial, 'tis
more than probable, they
will meet with so favouraReader,
that we may e're long prevail
with Her to oblige the World
with a Second Part, no way
inferior to the former.
TO the Author of these Poems,
known only by Report, and by her
Works.
On Joh. 3. 16— For God so loved
the World, that he gave his only
begotten Son, &c.
And, though after my Skin, Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh shall I see God,
To the Compiler of the Pindarick
now Recited.
THe Young Lady, who is the Author
of this BOOK, Living at a
Great Distance from London, 'twas ImSheets as
they came from the PRESS; and is
therefore no ways Accountable for the
Printer's Errata's.
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