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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
  

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41. The self-check.

My chaster Muses freely are inclin'd,
To wish thee to be wary:
Lest by temptation, thou shouldst be enjoyn'd
(Like Cloris) to miscarry.
But pardon me, I doubt not in the least,
Because you would not fall at my request.