A Married State: Katherine Philips

Well good thing I did not read this before I got married (haha just kidding). But the poet is telling all the single women not to get married and they will not regret it: "Therefore Madam, be advised by me/ Turn, turn apostate to love's levity (lines 13 and 14). She also explains that by not marrying women would not have to worry about "no pangs of childbirth to extort your tears;/ No children's cries for to offend your ears" (lines 8 and 9). And she also says that even the best husbands are hard to please. Therefore, if women do not get married they wont have to deal with these disappointments or womanly duties that married women are faced with. With this said, maybe Katherine Phillips had a bad marriage and like most heart broken women she decided to right about it and warn every woman that they could go through the same thing: the husband that is never satified, a crying baby, and childbirth. However, just because she had a bad marriage if that is the case does not justify giving advice to all of these hopeless romantics and people in love that if they get married they are going to experience the same disappointments as she did.