Hope not for mind in women; at their best
Sweetness and wit, they're but Mummy, possessed.
extract from John Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"
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Mummy: body without mind, but with an ironic ambiguity arising from the popular belief in pieces of mummy, or pretended mummy, as of great medicinal value.
In Arthur L. Clements' John Donne's Poetry, Norton Critical Editions, Second Edition, 1992, p.24
