With some slight heart-quake of domestic treason—

A topic Scandal doth delight to rouse:

Such I might stumble over unawares,

Unless I knew the very chastest squares.

XXVII.

'T is true, I might have chosen Piccadilly,[663]

A place where peccadillos are unknown;

But I have motives, whether wise or silly,

For letting that pure sanctuary alone.

Therefore I name not square, street, place, until I