Roxana Flashcards
‘London, a large…
and gay city’
‘My father was in very good…
Circumstance at his coming over’
‘The sequel will leave you to…
Judge whether I flatter myself or not’
Never, ladies, marry a fool…
Be anything rather than take up a fool
Hear him talk nonsense
Or be laughed at for a fool?
I now had 5 children by him:
The only work that fools are good for
My condition was the most
Deplorable that words can express
I did not see so much
Loss in his parting with me
I should eat up
My very children themselves
But the misery of my own circumstance hardened
My heart against my blood and flesh
Charity is a
Duty to the poor
I’ll make you
Easy if I can
I’ll die before I would consent
Or before you should consent for my sake
A woman ought rather to die
Than to prostitute her virtue and her honour
She lay still, and let him
Do what he would with her
Sad occasion of the
Loss of my husband (so they thought him)
I did not forget to set myself
Out with all possible advantage
Tears which, I confess
Were a little forced
Vanity and great
Things are irresistible
My virtue
Was lost
Misfortune seldom
Came alone
So possibly it is for us
To roll ourselves up in wickedness
A woman was a free
Agent as well as a man
Women were to be at
Best, an upper servant
I looked back on the life I had led
With the utmost contempt and abhorrence
I am a standing mark of
Great men in their vice
I am a standing monument of the madness and distraction with
Pride and infatuations from hell run us into
He had no knowledge
Of his accounts
‘I was brought to England…
By my parents who fled for their religion’
