"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
The Fall in Four Books. [from Poems on Several Occasions: In which are included, The Toilette and The Fall. By Joseph Thurston ... The Second Edition]
Text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions: In which are included, The Toilette and The Fall. By Joseph Thurston</u>, 2nd ed. (London: Printed for B. Motte, and C. Bathurst, 1737).