THE HARDSHIP UPON THE LADIES

Poor ladies! though their business be to play,

‘ Tis hard they must be busy night and day:

Why should they want the privilege of men,

Nor take some small diversions now and then?

Had women been the makers of our laws,

( And why they were not, I can see no cause,)

The men should slave at cards from morn to night

And female pleasures be to read and write.