... with poverty and ignorance, which are dark garments of the female sex; better to leave the discipline of the world to the others; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly describes if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the spirits, which are contemplation, solitude, love."(p113) Obviously Orlando is satisfied with her ... new identity-a female, in spite of the fact that she will lose privilege of the male and bear the unfair ... , the poet who has deceived her long before, and, at last, she finishes the long poem, The Oak...

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