Which line in this excerpt from "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope suggests that women in eighteenth-century England were expected to readily accept proposals from rich gentlemen without much opposition?
[What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,]
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:
[Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,]
If She inspire, and He approve my lays.
[Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred Lord t' assault a gentle Belle?]
[O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,
Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?]
[In tasks so bold, can little men engage,
And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty Rage?]
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