work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4465,"",Reading Lonsdale's anthology of women poets; confirmed in ECCO.,2009-09-14 19:36:13 UTC,"O were our dress contrived like these,
For use, for ornament and ease!
Man only seems to sorrow born,
Naked, defenceless and forlorn.

Yet we have Reason, to supply
What nature did to man deny:
Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own,
When Custom has usurped thy throne?

In vain did I appeal to thee,
Ere I would wear this livery;
Who, in defiance to thy rules,
Delights to make us act like fools.
O'er the human race the tyrant reigns,
And binds them in eternal chains.
We yield to his despotic sway,
The only monarch all obey.
(ll. 41-56, p. 121; cf. pp. 15-16 in 1734 ed.)",2003-10-22,11755,"•The comparison--the ""these""--is with the animals that are clothed by heaven with ""wondrous care"" (l. 32).
•The weakness of reason is reminiscent of Hume, but Custom is here a tyrant.","""Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?""",Ruler,2014-07-02 14:19:38 UTC,""