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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
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The Scene changes into a Forest.
Enter Aspasia.Asp. They say, wild Beasts inhabit here;But Grief and Wrong secures my Fear.Compar'd to him that does refuse,A Tyger's kind, for he pursues.To be forsaken's worse than torn;And Death a lesser ill than Scorn.No Forrest, Cave, or Savage DenHolds more pernicious Beasts than Men.Vows, Oaths, and Contracts they devise,And tell us, they are sacred Tyes:And so they are in our esteem;But empty Names, despis'd by them.Women with study'd Arts they vex:Ye Gods destroy that impious Sex.

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