>I notice from Helen's post that all the lineation seems to have dropped
>off the quotes in my email - ????
If the lineation you are referring to is what I copied below then it's
working fine for me, Alison:
>
> Hope's not so easily taped as misogynist: I'm thinking of Advice to
> Young Ladies, about Postumia, a Vestal Virgin deemed too lively and
> prosecuted for sexual misdemeanour:
>
> How many the black maw has swallowed in its time!
> Spirited girls who would not know their place;
> Talented girls who found that the disgrace
> Of being a woman made genius a crime;
>
> How many others, who would not kiss the rod
> Domestic bullying broke or public shame?
> Pagan or Christian, it was much the same:
> Husbands, St Paul declared, rank next to God.
>
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