To use their tongues less, and their needles more.
The needle's sharpness profit yields and pleasure,
But sharpness of the tongue bites out of measure.
John Taylor—Needle's Excellency.
59. Infant charms,
Unconscious fascination, undesign'd;
The orison repeated in your arms,
The book, the bosom on your knee reclined,
The low sweet fairy lore to con.