The Poems of Lord Rochester John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester

‘Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flow’r,/ Too soft for business and too weak for pow’r:/ A wife in bondage, or a neglected maid;/ Despised, if ugly; if she’s fair, betrayed.’(MARY LEAPOR) Trinity 2017.

Mary Leapor draws upon the notion of...