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... wives has long been established in England but plead that this “ Olde Testament " matriarchy be modified so as to allow for New Testament values like mercy . The wives then bustle in before the king , waving the example of the " worthy ...
... wives has long been established in England but plead that this “ Olde Testament " matriarchy be modified so as to allow for New Testament values like mercy . The wives then bustle in before the king , waving the example of the " worthy ...
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... wives ' faults , no- body ever complained that husbands lacked discretion for saying such things behind their wives ' backs . This double standard so little troubles Rowlands that he gives the gossips ' husbands what nobody gave wives ...
... wives ' faults , no- body ever complained that husbands lacked discretion for saying such things behind their wives ' backs . This double standard so little troubles Rowlands that he gives the gossips ' husbands what nobody gave wives ...
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... wives , whom he con- nects with the chaos of modern sex - role inversions ; Hap may so hazard , the moon may so change , That men may be masters , and wives will not range : But in hazard it is , in many a grange , Lest wives wear the ...
... wives , whom he con- nects with the chaos of modern sex - role inversions ; Hap may so hazard , the moon may so change , That men may be masters , and wives will not range : But in hazard it is , in many a grange , Lest wives wear the ...
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Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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