And make’st the fruitful Prude repent her joys!

Drop me one feather, from thy wanton wing,

Young God of dimples! in thy roguish flight;

And let thy Poet catch it, now, to sing

The beauty of the Dame who won the Knight!

Her beauty!—but Sir Thomas’s own Sonnet

Beats all that I can say upon it.

SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM’s[6]
SONNET
ON HIS LADY.