¡¡¡¡Epistle from Mrs.Yonge to Her Husband
¡¡¡¡by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
¡¡¡¡Think not this paper comes with vain pretense
¡¡¡¡To move your pity£¬ or to mourn th' offense£®
¡¡¡¡Too well I know that hard obdurate heat£»
¡¡¡¡No softening mercy there will take my part£¬
¡¡¡¡Nor can a woman's arguments prevail£¬
¡¡¡¡When even your patron's wise example fails£®
¡¡¡¡But this last privilege I still retain£»
¡¡¡¡Th' oppressed and injured always may complain
¡¡¡¡Too£¬ too severely laws of honor bind
¡¡¡¡The weak submissive sex of womankind£®
¡¡¡¡If sighs have gained or force compelled our hand£¬
¡¡¡¡Deceived by art£¬ or urged by stern command£¬
¡¡¡¡Whatever motive binds the fatal tie£¬
¡¡¡¡The judging world expects our constancy£®
¡¡¡¡Just heaven£¡ £¨for sure in heaven does justice reign£¬
¡¡¡¡Though tricks below that sacred name profane£©
¡¡¡¡To you appealing I submit my cause£¬
¡¡¡¡Nor fear a judgment from impartial laws£®
¡¡¡¡All bargains but conditional are made£»
¡¡¡¡The purchase void£¬ the creditor unpaid£»
¡¡¡¡Defrauded servants are from service free£»
¡¡¡¡A wounded slave regains his liberty£®
¡¡¡¡For wives ill used no remedy remains£¬
¡¡¡¡To daily racks condemned£¬ and to eternal chains£®
¡¡¡¡From whence is this unjust distinction grown?
¡¡¡¡Are we not formed with passions like your own?
¡¡¡¡Nature with equal fire our souls endued£¬
¡¡¡¡Our minds as haughty£¬ and as warm as our blood£»
¡¡¡¡O'er the wide world your pleasures you pursue£¬
¡¡¡¡The change is justified by something new£»
¡¡¡¡But we must sigh in silence¡ª¡ªand be true£®
¡¡¡¡Our sex's weakness you expose and blame
¡¡¡¡£¨Of every prattling fop the common theme£©£¬
¡¡¡¡Yet from this weakness you suppose is due
¡¡¡¡Sublimer virtue that your Cato knew£®
¡¡¡¡Had heaven designed us trials so severe£¬
¡¡¡¡It would have formed our tempers then to bear£®
¡¡¡¡And I have borne £¨oh what have I not borne£¡£©
¡¡¡¡The pang of jealousy£¬ the insults of scorn£®
¡¡¡¡Wearied at length£¬ I from your sight remove£¬
¡¡¡¡And place my future hopes in secret love£®
¡¡¡¡In the gay bloom of glowing youth retired£¬
¡¡¡¡I quit the woman's joy to be admired£¬
¡¡¡¡With that small pension your hard heart allows£¬
¡¡¡¡Renounce your fortune£¬ and release your vows£®
¡¡¡¡To custom £¨though unjust£© so much is due£»
¡¡¡¡I hide my frailty from the public view£®
¡¡¡¡My conscience clear£¬ yet sensible of shame£¬
¡¡¡¡My life I hazard£¬ to preserve my fame£®
¡¡¡¡And I prefer this low inglorious state
¡¡¡¡To vile dependence on the thing I hate¡ª¡ª
¡¡¡¡But you pursue me to this last retreat£®
¡¡¡¡Dragged into light£¬ my tender crime is shown
¡¡¡¡And every circumstance of fondness known£®
¡¡¡¡Beneath the shelter of the law you stand£¬
¡¡¡¡And urge my ruin with a cruel hand£¬
¡¡¡¡While to my fault thus rigidly severe£¬
¡¡¡¡Tamely submissive to the man you fear£®
¡¡¡¡This wretched outcast£¬ this abandoned wife£¬
¡¡¡¡Has yet this joy to sweeten shameful life£º
¡¡¡¡By your mean conduct£¬ infamously loose£¬
¡¡¡¡You are at once my accuser and excuse£®
¡¡¡¡Let me be damned by the censorious prude
¡¡¡¡£¨Stupidly dull£¬ or spiritually lewd£©£¬
¡¡¡¡My hapless case will surely pity find
¡¡¡¡From every just and reasonable mind£®
¡¡¡¡When to the final sentence I submit£¬
¡¡¡¡The lips condemn me£¬ but their souls acquit£®
¡¡¡¡No more my husband£¬ to your pleasures go£¬
¡¡¡¡The sweets of your recovered freedom know£®
¡¡¡¡Go£º court the brittle friendship of the great£¬
¡¡¡¡Smile at his board£¬ or at his levee wait£»
¡¡¡¡And when dismissed£¬ to madam's toilet fly£¬
¡¡¡¡More than her chambermaids£¬ or glasses£¬ lie£¬
¡¡¡¡Tell her how young she looks£¬ how heavenly fair£¬
¡¡¡¡Admire the lilies and the roses there£®
¡¡¡¡Your high ambition may be gratified£¬
¡¡¡¡Some cousin of her own be made your bride£¬
¡¡¡¡And you the father of a glorious race
¡¡¡¡Endowed with Ch¡ª¡ªl's strength and Low¡ª¡ªr's face£®
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