Quoted By:
1608-1674: John Milton
>"Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib
>Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears,
>More to the part sinister, from me drawn;
>Well if thrown out, as supernumerary
>To my just number found. Oh, why did God,
>Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven
>With Spirits masculine, create at last
>This novelty on earth, this fair defect
>Of nature, and not fill the world at once
>With men, as angels, without feminine;
>Or find some other way to generate
>Mankind? This mischief had not been befallen,
>And more that shall befall;innumerable
>Disturbances on earth through female snares."
—Paradise Lost, Chapter X: 864-878.
>"But still I see the tenor of Man's woe
>Holds on the same, from Woman to begin.
>From Man's effeminate slackness it begins,
>Said the angel, who should better hold his place
>By wisdom, and superior gifts received."
—Paradise Lost, Chapter XI: 632-636.
