First Line	I Ask not Wit, nor Beauty do I crave
Author	Arabella Morton
Date	1725
Description	Prayer [Women; Courtship, marriage; Domestic life]. Usually accompanied by Hervey's Answer, "Nature, perversly to your wish, has given..." Transcribed from "The Wish of Miss M—n, Daughter to the Lord L— M—." The gentleman's miscellany, In Verse and Prose... ed. Sir Butterfly Maggot, 1730, p. 43. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE\|CW0117223459.
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I Ask not Wit, nor Beauty do I crave,

Nor Wealth, nor pompous Titles wish to have;

But since 'tis doom'd, thro' ev'ry State of Life,

Whether a Sister, Daughter, or a Wife,

That Females shou'd the stronger Males obey,

And yield her Force to their Tyrranick Sway;

Since this, I say, is ev'ry Woman's Fate,

Give me a Mind to suit my slavish State.

Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40

f. 6; item #40

Local title: The Wish of Miss Morton/ Daughter to Ld: L—M—

Attributed author: Miss Morton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Followed by Harvey's Answer.

Clark MS 1976.014

Title	Poems on Several Occasions. /By Different Hands.
Period	1731-1760
Archive	Clark Library

p. 114

Local title: The humble Wish

Attributed author: Arabella Moreton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 79

Local title: The Wish

Attributed author: Mis. Bell Morton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Included in a series of poems called "Bathinalia" in the Table of Contents. Followed by The Answer by T. Harvey (Nature perversely...)