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... slander Woman is to slander her creator , to call God “ a bongler or a botcher " ( Sig . Aiiii ) . The pye cheerfully replies that the Devil is God's creation too . ( The falcon , having no ready answer to this , wisely lets the pye ...
... slander Woman is to slander her creator , to call God “ a bongler or a botcher " ( Sig . Aiiii ) . The pye cheerfully replies that the Devil is God's creation too . ( The falcon , having no ready answer to this , wisely lets the pye ...
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... slandered her to cover up their own attempt at seducing her . This example obliquely impugns the motives of the detractor of women , implying that those who slander women are those who have themselves been frustrated in lewd attempts on ...
... slandered her to cover up their own attempt at seducing her . This example obliquely impugns the motives of the detractor of women , implying that those who slander women are those who have themselves been frustrated in lewd attempts on ...
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... slander itself distracted attention from legal inequities , social prejudice , and a host of other prob- lems more serious for women than antifeminist insults . More's obligatory defense of Eve is hardly feminist . The Devil who tempted ...
... slander itself distracted attention from legal inequities , social prejudice , and a host of other prob- lems more serious for women than antifeminist insults . More's obligatory defense of Eve is hardly feminist . The Devil who tempted ...
Contents
Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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