1 In Beauty Or Wit, No Mortal As Yet To Question Your Empire Has Dared; But Men Of Discerning Have Thought That In Learning To Yield To A Lady Was Hard. 2 Impertinent Schools, With Musty Dull Rules, Have Reading To Females Denied: So Papists Refuse The Bible To Use, Lest Flocks Should Be Wise As Their Guide. 3 'Twas A Woman At First (Indeed She Was Cursed) In Knowledge That Tasted Delight, And Sages Agree The Laws Should Decree To The First Possessor The Right. 4 Then Bravely, Fair Dame, Resume The Old Claim, Which To Your Whole Sex Does Belong; And Let Men Receive, From A Second Bright Eve, The Knowledge Of Right And Of Wrong. 5 But If The First Eve Hard Doom Did Receive, When Only One Apple Had She, What A Punishment New Shall Be Found Out For You, Who, Tasting, Have Robb'D The Whole Tree!