Note 87 — PART III. LABOR.
Reading edition
“Adam’s children must work, Eve’s children must suffer.”—“On some Guesses at Truth,” in Good Words, June, 1862. Young, in his Night Thoughts, beautifully expresses the common lot of woman to suffer:
“’Tis the common lot;
In this shape, or in that, has fate entailed
The mother’s throes on all of woman born,
Not more the children than sure heirs of pain.”