What’s Man, but a perfidious Creature,
Of an inconstant, fickle Nature,
Deceitful, and Conceited too,
Boasting of more than he can do?
Beware, ye heedless Nymphs, beware,
For Men will Lye, and Fawn, and Swear;
But, when they once have gain’d the Prize,
Good Heav’ns! How they will Tyranize!
From: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/man-hater-song
Date: 1713
By: Henry Carey (c1687-1743)
From Troubles of The World 