The Youth of the Old Dominion
The Youth of the Old Dominion
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A bad state of society this ! Heartburnings, aliena- tions, feuds, it certainly produced ; perhaps duels and bloodshed, maiming and death. The women said it was the fault of the men; they were so many, so ardent, so importunate, and so determined, that they would not be denied ; and that a " Yes " for every wooer was the only means for the women to live in "peace." In this there was doubtless some truth.
On the other hand, the men, to justify the ardor .^ and pertinacity of their courtship, ple...aded the great scarcity of women, — a fact which none could dis-.
pute. Sir Francis Wyatt said "that the fault was in the women, that their behavior was a crying sin," (to be sure it was !) " that it must be stopped. He would not have the men trifled with so." And as there was no Sir Edwin Sandys now in power in England to import "virgins young and uncorrupt,"* Sir Francis resorted to the only other means of re- forming the bad manners of the women. He issued a proclamation forbidding any one to contract herself * I find no trace of young women being sent orer " to moke wives " after the year 1620, until 1632, under which date is the following by / Burk (II.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A bad state of society this ! Heartburnings, aliena- tions, feuds, it certainly produced ; perhaps duels and bloodshed, maiming and death. The women said it was the fault of the men; they were so many, so ardent, so importunate, and so determined, that they would not be denied ; and that a " Yes " for every wooer was the only means for the women to live in "peace." In this there was doubtless some truth.
On the other hand, the men, to justify the ardor .^ and pertinacity of their courtship, ple...aded the great scarcity of women, — a fact which none could dis-.
pute. Sir Francis Wyatt said "that the fault was in the women, that their behavior was a crying sin," (to be sure it was !) " that it must be stopped. He would not have the men trifled with so." And as there was no Sir Edwin Sandys now in power in England to import "virgins young and uncorrupt,"* Sir Francis resorted to the only other means of re- forming the bad manners of the women. He issued a proclamation forbidding any one to contract herself * I find no trace of young women being sent orer " to moke wives " after the year 1620, until 1632, under which date is the following by / Burk (II.
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