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Poem by Matthew Prior


Written in an Ovid


Ovid is the surest guide
You can name to show the way
To any woman, maid, or bride,
Who resolves to go astray. 



Matthew Prior


Matthew Prior's other poems:
  1. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
  2. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
  3. Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
  4. A Sailor's Wife
  5. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's


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