Sexual consent and the art of love in the early modern English lyric.

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Garrett, Cynthia E. | Copyright information

The Lawes Resolvtions of Womens Rights, an early seventeenth-century legal guide for women, offers an analysis of rape unique for the period: "So drunken are men with their owne lusts, and the poyson of Ouids false precept, uim licet appellant, vis est ea grata puellis. That if the rampier of Lawes were not betwixt women and their harmes, I verily thinke none of them, being aboue twelue yeares of age, and vnder an hundred, being either faire or rich, should be able to escape rauish...

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