...and nature's easy fool— 185 If poor, weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, If, strongly charmed, ISAAC. Aye, so they are — yes, yes, they are laughing...kissing her hand. 97 ISAAC. Yes, yes; 'faith, the In vain look back to what she was before; She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more. Exeunt ACT...

...unquestioned through the wilds of love; If poor weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, If, strongly charmed, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths...shame, And one false Step entirely damns her fame. (I. 2. 180-190)1 Anders als in Rowes The Fair Penitent zieht die Protagonistin dieses Dramas aus einer...

...sense and nature's easy fool, Let poor, weak woman swerve from virtue's rule; If, strongly charm 'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths...fame; In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets, like stars that fall to rise no more. — NICHOLAS...

...dress in men's attire to achieve some sense of autonomy and equality. If, strongly charm'd, she leaves the thorny way And in the softer paths of pleasure...fame: In vain, with tears the loss she may deplore, 185 In vain, look hack on what she was before; She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more. Exeunt...

...wilds of love; While women, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerves from virtues rule; If, strongly charm'd she leave the thorny way, And...ensues, reproach, and endless shame, and one false step intirely damns her fame; In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back to what she...

...suggestion of impropriety is enough to condemn her: "But if WOMAN advance beyond the boundaries of decorum, 'Ruin ensues, reproach, and endless shame,/ And one false step, entirely damns her fame."' (6). What is she finally arguing for or against? She definitely shares the vocabulary of other revolutionary...

...sense and nature's easy fool, If poor, weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, If strongly charm'd, she'd leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure...shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame . . . She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more. Now, there, I was filled with fervor. Had there...

...softer paths of Pleasure stray,— Ruin ensues, reproach, and endless shame, And one false step for ever damns her fame. In vain, with tears, the loss she may deplore — j In vain look back to what she was before — > She sets, — like stars that fall — to rise no more. J " I became careless...

...sense and nature's easy fool, ' If poor weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, ' Ruin ensues, remorse and endless shame, ' And one false step entirely damns her fame. ' In vain with tears her loss she may deplore, ' In vain look back to what she was before, She sets, like stars that fall,...

...love : But woman, man's and nature's easy fool, If poor, weak worm, she swerve from nature's rule, Ruin ensues — reproach, and endless shame — And one false step entirely damns her fame. THE peaceful little village of Chapel-en le-Frith, which is situated within a short ride from Chatsworth,...