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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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22. Upon a certain Woman.

Your Beauty begot Fame: but soon, alas,
The Mother, by the Daughter, murder'd was;
Whilst a loose Carriage, threw Ink on your Name;
And a good Face, was scratch'd, by a bad Fame.