"But, as an author of great fame / (I can't just recollect his name) / Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind / By force, or fraud, a woman's mind, / With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains, / But gets his labour for his pains."
The Heathen System. A Very Moral Tale [from Poetical Trifles]
5 entries in ESTC (1778, 1779, 1783).<br>
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<u>Poetical Trifles. By Sir John Moore</u> (Bath: Printed by and for R. Cruttwell and Sold by J. Dodsley, Robson, and Almon, 1778).<br>
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Note, many of the poems in <u>Trifles</u> were first issued in a volume titled <u>The New Paradise of Dainty Devices</u> (J. Almon, 1777). 