Cease, fond shepherd -- cease desiring <br />What you never must enjoy; <br />She derides your vain aspiring, <br />She to all your sex is coy. <br />Cunning Damon once pursu'd her, <br />Yet she never would incline; <br />Strephon too as vainly woo'd her, <br />Though his flocks are more than thine. <br />At Diana's shrine aloud, <br />By the zone around her waist, <br />Thrice she bow'd, and thrice she vow'd <br />Like the Goddess to be chaste.<br /><br />Lady Mary Wortley Montagu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/advice-2/
