Would you to him present the naked mind?

If it were clear as crystal, yet it checks

One’s joy to think that he may fancy specks;

And now, in five long years, we scarcely know

How the mind gets them, and how large they grow.

Let woman be as rigid as a nun,

She cannot censures and surmises shun.

Wonder not, then, at tales that Scandal tells—

Your father’s rooms were not like sisters’ cells;

Nor pious monks came there, nor prosing friars, 30