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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: grace, wit, sense, discretion, dexterity, learning, and valour?"
"Learning!" exclaimed the little friar; "what has a woman to do
with learning? And valour! who ever heard a woman commended for valour?
Meekness and mildness, and softness, and gentleness, and tenderness,
and humility, and obedience to her husband, and faith in her confessor,
and domesticity, or, as learned doctors call it, the faculty
of stayathomeitiveness, and embroidery, and music, and pickling,
and preserving, and the whole complex and multiplex detail of
the noble science of dinner, as well in preparation for the table,
as in arrangement over it, and in distribution around it to knights,
and squires, and ghostly friars,--these are female virtues:
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