34. That Wome Men’s Shadows
—— B. Jonson
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
At morn and even shades are lo;
At noon they are or short or none:
So men at weakest, they are stro,
But grant us perfect, they’re not known.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?