"Like to the head o'er which infection reigns, / That soon pollutes the blood in distant veins; / E'en so ill precepts will their poison spread / Among inferiors, when by greatness led."
Sunday [from Poems on Several Occasions]
John Bennet, <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (Oxford: Mess. Prince, Fletcher and Parker ... and by the author, 1774). Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Full-Text Database, 1992. 