• Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

    Jonathan Swift: Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
    Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.187