Citation - American Weekly Mercury: 1738.12.28

AWM.738.038
21-28 Dec 1738:32 (991)
The following verses in honour of the female sex, were
written by an Irish gentleman, and transcrib'd by a
gentlewoman in England, who transmitted them in a letter to
her brother in New-England by the last ship:--
ON WOMAN.
Man was a happy favourite above
When heaven endow'd him with the power to love;
His God ne'er thought him in a perfect state, 
Till Woman made his paradice compleat.
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