I am intrigued by Katherine Philips’ “A Married State.” Philips gives women an option outside heterosexual love, it seems: “Therefore Madam, be advised by me/ Turn, turn apostate to love’s levity,/ Suppress wild nature if she dare rebel./ There’s no such thing as leading apes in hell.” She subverts the language of the Book of Homilies by invoking “rebel” and “hell,” which is an especially interesting tactic in a poem with this title. This poem reads like a whisper to another woman about how marriage isn’t all it’s imagined to be, which makes me wonder how it was circulated.