Silly, you men-so very adept
at wrongly faulting womankind,
not seeing you're alone to blame
for faults you plant in woman's mind.

 After you've won by urgent plea
the right to tarnish her good name,
you still expect her to behave--
you, that coaxed her into shame.

 You batter her resistance down
and then, all righteousness, proclaim
that feminine frivolity,
not your persistence, is to blame.