And that one hunting, which the devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
What all your sex desire is Sovereignty.
Cherehez la femme.
Find the woman.
Dumas—Les Mohicans de Paris. Vol. III.
Ch. X. and elsewhere in the novel. Act
III. Sc. 7. of the play. Probably from the
Spanish. A common question of Charpes.
See Revue des Deux Mondes. XI. 822.
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George Eliot—Felix Holt. Ch. XLIII.
a
When greater perils men inviron,
Then women show a front of iron;
And, gentle in their manner, they
Do bold things in a quiet way.
Thomas Dunn English—Betty Zone.
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| text = <poem>There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and
nothing has ever been produced better than a
good one.
Euripides—Melanippe.
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
Fahquhar—Constant Couple. Act V. Sc. 1.
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness,
Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
Fletcher—Woman Pleased. Act II. Sc. 1.
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to
govern a state.
Samuel Foote—The Minor.
Toute femme varie
Bien fol est qui s'y fie.
Woman is always fickle—foolish is he who
trusts her.
Francois I. Scratched with his ring on
' ,a window of Chambord Castle. (Quoted
also "souvent femme.
