SONNET. TO A LADY OF INDISCREET VIRTUE. Thomas Percy Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T116245 1136 K093079.003 Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. III. [The second edition]. London printed for G. Pearch 1770 pp. 289-290. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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SONNET . TO A LADY OF INDISCREET VIRTUE . IN IMITATION OF SPENSER . BY T— P— . WHILE you , fair ANNA , innocently gay , And free and open , all reserve disdain ; Where-ever Fancy leads securely stray , And conscious of no ill can fear no stain ; Let calm Discretion guide with steady rein , Let early Caution twitch your gentle ear ; She'll tell you Censure lays her wily train , To blast those beauties which too bright appear . Ah me ! I see the monster lurking near , I know her haggard eye , and poisonous tongue , She scans your actions with malicious leer , Eager to wrest and represent them wrong ; Yet shall your conduct , circumspect and clear , Nor baleful touch , nor fangs envenom'd fear .