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Women. As in John Knox's book "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstruous Regiment of Women", published six years before Shakespeare's birth. Or as in this line from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: "By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke" And here is John Donne: "Like pictures, or like books' gay coverings made

For laymen, are all women thus array'd."

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