The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits |
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An Epigram
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An Epigram ON LORD ANSON AND HIS LADY.
AS Anson, his voyage to my Lady was reading,And recounting his dangers, (thank God, she's not breeding)
He came to the passage, where, like the old Roman,
He stoutly withstood the temptation of Woman;
The Baroness smiled when, continuing, he said,
“Think what terror must there fill the poor lover's head!”
“Alack,” quoth my Lady, “he had nothing to fear,
“Were that Scipio as harmless as you are, my dear.”
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