"Each man of sense, you'll find disdain / To drag coquetry's galling chain. / 'Tis prudence, truth, good sense, my dear, / That makes the lamp of love burn clear; / These are the silken cords, that bind / The Lover's, and the Husband's mind."
Advice to My Niece Miss S. B. of Chester. [from Poems]
See <u>Poems by Mrs. Pickering. To Which Are Added Poetical Sketches by the Author, and Translator of Philotoxi ArdenÃ¦.</u> (Birmingham: Printed by E. Piercy, No. 96, In Bull - Street; and sold by J. Johnson, ST. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1794). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114202935&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;