But the offense taken by the ladies against the Uncourtly bard is chiefly occasioned by his having presumed to intimate that conjugal obedience Is woman's highest honor and her praise.
"Coelebs In Search of a Wife"
Hannah More
What reasons they could have for giving so rough and Uncourtly a precept, is not easy to be imagined: for, however fickle and unstable some women may be, it is well known there are several who have a greater regard for truth, in what they assert or promise, than most men.
"Æsop's Fables Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices."
Æsop