The LADY's Resolve. Written extempore on a Window. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) 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. T131163 K104099.001 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 107. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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The LADY's Resolve . Written extempore on a Window . By the Same . WHILST thirst of praise , and vain desire of fame , In every age , is every woman's aim ; With courtship pleas'd , of silly toasters proud , Found of a train , and happy in a crowd ; On each poor fool bestowing some kind glance , Each conquest owing to some loose advance ; While vain coquets affect to be pursu'd , And think they're virtuous , if not grossly lewd : Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide ; In part she is to blame that has been try'd — He comes too near that comes to be deny'd .