She was the second of three women to respond to Swetnam s " The Arraignment of Women " in her pamphlet, " Ester Hath Hanged Haman "; or " An Answer to a Lewd Pamphlet, Entitled The Arraignment of Women " in response to " The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Men, and Husbands " ( 1617 ).
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Sonnet 151 has been compared to a verse by 17th-century author Joseph Swetnam published in 1615 under the pseudonym Thomas Tell-Troth, in a pamphlet titled " The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women " satirizing the vices of women . " The woman's best part call it I dare / Wherein no man comes but must stand bare / And let him be never so stout / T'will take him down before he goes out . " Both poems imply that sex subordinates the man to the woman.
