And tho’ her thoughts reflect with purest light
Her mind, if not peculiar, is not chaste.
For in a wife it is no worse to find
A common body, than a common mind.
MARY OXLIE OF MORPET
Early 17th cent.
5. To William Drummond of Hawthornden
I never rested on the Muses bed,
Nor dipt my quill in the Thessalian fountaine,
My rustick Muse was rudely fostered,