| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Advice | | By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) |
| | | CEASE, fond shepherd! Cease desiring | |
| What you never must enjoy; | |
| She derides your vain aspiring, | |
| She, to all your sex is coy. | |
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| Cunning Damon once pursued her, | 5 |
| Yet she never would incline; | |
| Strephon too, as vainly wooed her, | |
| Though his flocks are more than thine. | |
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| At Diana’s shrine, aloud, | |
| By the zone around her waist, | 10 |
| Thrice she bowed, and thrice she vowed, | |
| Like the Goddess, to be chaste. | | | | |
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